Nothing is normal anymore.

Have you ever jumped on a trampoline for a lot of hours and then gotten off of it and had to walk on regular solid ground?

Same.

Both when I was 13 and jumped on the trampoline in our yard for an INSANE number of hours and also now, after a whole year+ in a pandemic.

Here’s the thing.

None of us know how to do this.
None of us have known all year how to do this.

But here we are.

Standing, stumbling, trying to put one foot in front of the other.

When you’re on the trampoline, the ground doesn’t feel strange. You except it to be bouncy and you’re kinda livin' your best life. Totally jammin’ and jumpin’.

BUT THEN

It’s the getting off the trampoline, back to “regular ground”, when things start to feel really weird.

Your legs feel all wobbly and the ground feels funny and all the sudden you realize that you had gotten USED to the trampoline.

NOW.

I’m definitely NOT saying that I’ve gotten used to the pandemic.

But I am saying that maybe it’s ok throw the phrase “back to normal” out the window.

Nothing is normal anymore.
What even is normal?
Is it solid ground?
Or bouncy?

I can’t even remember.

But I do know that all we can do is keep putting one foot in front of the other.
Even when everything feels all weird.