We want everything to be normal RIGHT NOW. We want that movie download to arrive within one minute (or less) to our iPads. We want to know how many feet of snow will fall this weekend while the storm is still off the coast of California.
I estimate that nearly half the newspaper stories I read in opinion pages consist of "OMG... this bad thing MIGHT happen if certain things occur." What if AI takes over accounting jobs? What if a mutation of the virus causes the infected to grow and extra finger? What happens AFTER the next couple years, when the soon-to-be signed federal rescue money is not longer propping things up? What happens if 30 percent of Americans refuse vaccinations, though it won't be until summer that we will be in a position to do much counting?
You get the idea. We want our news yesterday and we want some reassurance that the near and far future are going to be OK.
I, on the other hand, quickly skip over those stories. How much does it help me, or anyone, to spend time wondering if things will change around Buckingham Palace after the big Oprah interview gets pushed aside a bit?
I was thinking about the looming snow coming to the Front Range this weekend and how people often try to outwit nature. For me, I had no travel plans and wasn't going in search of fresh powder, so being stuck inside while feet of snow pile up around me is not all that different from what's been going on for the past year.
I'll be mostly in the house, working on my classes and various small projects, taking breaks to look at other screens to watch movies and Netflix and Prime and even network shows on the DVR.
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