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Three times yes: the burdens and complaints are unevenly distributed.
Some have worries, others grief, some have both at the same time - and the third are in an eternal Sunday, which was first celebrated as a slowdown: long due anyway.
Consumption almost abolished, as well as business trips, appointments, family and leisure get-togethers perceived as ambivalent - the shutdown is also a celebration of anti-cyclical comfort, almost as the days should pass between the years, only with incessant sunshine.
It is only in isolation that it becomes apparent how much better people feel when they are angry with others and not just with themselves.
But the but follows, as it is his way, on the foot: the nerves get thin.
Not only for those who are heavily weighted, but also for those favored by the Corona fate, who follow the local restrictions with insight and almost without internal resistance: shopping and local transport only with a face mask, no pleasure trips, and, if you meet an acquaintance or friend are practically limited to call range.
The dangers of blissful weariness, of life in sweatpants, were noticed early and answered appropriately.
The media are literally overflowing with good advice: give everyday life a structure, have breakfast and supper at set times, do yoga to avoid becoming a lump and keep the energy cycle going, rhythmize your days and weeks, set yourself limit yourself and create small goals ...
All of this serves to counter the monotony of time, which seems to flow thicker and thicker, at first tasted jammy, now feels like morass, to counter the wise, enlightened will: One does not want to drown in the swamp of bad infinity, like the philosopher Hegel State called, but rescues itself on the private Feldherrnhügel, hardly bigger than that of a mole, laboriously baked together from discipline and good intentions, from all kinds of small duties and structures.
Facebook or chatting only from 5 p.m., binge-watching at midnight, a lap through the park at noon, a daily meal with the immune-secured herd ...
That helps, but it doesn't save.
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