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"I need to feel alive": after the Covid, new major life projects

2021-01-23T10:10:34.609Z


TESTIMONIALS - Expatriation, professional reconversion, founding of a family, childhood utopias ... Our readers confide in their hopes, their misfortunes and their choices for the future.


Curfews, masks, vaccines, closures, tests ... “

Stop!

We can't take this damn Covid any more!

Aubin, like so many other readers of

Le Figaro,

has had enough.

"

Your articles on

containment

, there ... Stop bothering us with it!"

The vaccines are there, isn't that a good sign?

», Exclaims the faithful Marseillais.

Like Aubin, millions of French people hope to get out, as soon as possible or more reasonably from next summer, from this health crisis.

Preparing for it, they nourish great projects that will boost their new lives.

We have selected some of them, marked by hope, dreams and remorse.

To read also: Nicolas Baverez: "Lessons and hopes of a terrible year"

France, I can't take it anymore!

": Exile as a new beginning

At the origin of the majority of these plans for the future: the big government failures.

We sucked.

Mostly !

We were told that the mask was useless, before imposing it on us.

We are tested, but we are not isolated.

We order doses of Pfizer, but we are not vaccinated.

We are not confined, but everything is closed

”, lists Sébastien, 26 years old.

And now, supposedly, we are

66 million prosecutors!

", He calls out, referring to a short sentence by Emmanuel Macron in which he regrets the"

incessant hunt for error

"in France, which has become"

a nation of 66 million prosecutors

".

France, I can't take it anymore.

The selfish French, who prevent strong measures, I can not stand them anymore,

”slices the graphic designer from Lyon.

I see only one solution left: exile!

" But where ?

Many countries apply the same health restrictions, with sometimes proportionately poorer human figures.

South Korea.

The people there are disciplined, hardworking.

They respect their neighbors.

""

I have the basics of the language, thanks to my girlfriend.

I can continue in my box remotely.

I have the budget.

What is stopping me?

», Sébastien continues.

I'm going to take a gap year in Australia: becoming a waitress, meeting surfers, and sleeping alone on the sand, with my eyes in the water!

 "

Mélanie, graduated at the end of the year.

This desire for Asia, Édouard, 32, shares it: “

When you see the management of the epidemic in France, in the West itself, that only confirms one thing: my plan to return to live in Japan.

Learn Okinawan cuisine, climb Mount Fuji a second time and start my tourist business!

Jeanne, 27, sees herself in Bali, Indonesia: "

Life is so much cheaper there than with my savings, I could stroll there for a few months before working there!"

Satisfies this web designer.

It makes you wonder why it took me a pandemic to achieve it

Julie, an 18-year-old student, aims instead for the American dream.

The vaccine will change everything.

I will be able to continue my studies there, I even spotted a university, that of Connecticut.

And the election of Joe Biden,

who wants to unite his country

, encourages me.

"Mélanie, graduating at the end of the year, will follow her sister's example:"

Like her, I'm going to take a sabbatical in Australia - becoming a waitress, meeting surfers, sleeping alone on the beach, etc.

!

"

Read also: The Covid complicates the lives of expatriates

Carolina, 30 years old and director of a cultural establishment, wants to give up everything for love.

During the first confinement, I met Arthur, a Frenchman living in Mexico, on video.

Since then, we have not left each other: he came to France for a weekend, and I to Mexico for two weeks - as soon as possible, I am moving for a new life with him.

"

"

To have a child ... or to separate

": the couple to the test of freedom

If this budding love should not give birth to a baby immediately, that of Sandra, hairdresser, in a relationship for three years, could well raise the statistics of the birth rate, at the lowest since 1945: "

I can not wait any longer. , this is the perfect opportunity.

A child will be the best way to put an end to Covid.

And since we are going to beat the virus by the end of the year, we will have to get started now!

It is also a project, then.

"

I already have three young boys, and confinement has been one of the most beautiful periods of my life in their presence: I want a fourth

", says Marie, a 30-year-old Bordeaux woman.

Élodie, still in license, wants to save her marriage: “

I love my boyfriend, but he seems reluctant to have a baby.

I'm afraid he doesn't really love me anymore.

When leaving the Covid, this will be the ultimate test of our relationship: either we plan to have a child, or we separate.

"

I don't recognize myself.

But I need to feel alive - I wasn't all these years.

 "

Émilie, who left her spouse for another.

Some couples do not take this ultimatum to themselves.

I started divorce proceedings a few months ago.

The confinement broke my relationship,

”says Gary, his voice trembling, who will move from his home at the end of the epidemic.

Same observation for Émilie, who no longer supported her spouse: “

from the second confinement, he no longer attracted me, no longer corresponded to me, I found him permanent defects.

“On social networks, Émilie responded to requests from a man.

To pass the time, first, then over the months, I formed a relationship with him.

He then picked me up from my home, and I left my partner in the process.

Emilie does not "

recognize herself

".

I need to feel alive.

And I was not during all these years

”.

"

Building a strong, living couple: coming out of the Covid, I have to do with my new man what I had never done before

".

"

I need to change profession

":

the French in search of meaning ... and benevolence

Today, one in five French people perceive neither the meaning nor the usefulness of their job, according to data from April 2020. Jonathan, in his forties living in Orange, is one of them: “

I am responsible for sales , for eight years, in a real estate company.

With teleworking, the loss of discussions around the coffee machine, the decrease in the workload, I realized that I had a 'bullshit job' - before the virus, it felt like I was very busy, talking a lot, making essential decisions.

Finally, all my work is done in a few clicks

”.

Jonathan also has the impression of being a “

number

”, which his boss has at his disposal.

I will be resigning soon.

Start my own business, to become a habitat advisor.

I would be in direct contact with people who want to build their houses, buy their land.

Human contact will not be distorted, and I will feel useful.

"

Read also: Finding meaning in your work, is it really essential?

When you spend 18 years at the Caisse Primaire d'Assurance Maladie, and the Covid occurs, you say to yourself that you have to start living.

"In the grip of a deep discomfort, Nadia, 42, wanted to embark on ... well-being in business.

So many people burn out, feel unnecessary.

These confinements opened my eyes to the misfortune at work.

"After a conventional break, Nadia follows a training course to become, in the coming months, a business coach.

With the Covid, I learned to take my time.

Usually boosted by her job as a journalist, Éléonore, during confinement, discovered the benefits of yoga and sophrology.

I want to train myself to make it my job - like journalism, it would be a job of transmission, but turned towards the positive, the benevolence, the calm.

The race for performance is killing human relationships.

I would like to help slow it down.

"

I am a barmaid, and I live in a ski resort.

It's like I drowned twice

 ”.

Charlotte, who wants to isolate herself more deeply in a rural area.

Sometimes the change is undergone.

I am a bartender, or rather was.

I was doing this job for the convivial, festive side ... From now on, I am resigned: my job will probably die.

I live in a

ski resort

, so I experience a double sentence, as if I were drowning twice,

”laments Charlotte, in her thirties.

I am so disgusted with the inconsistencies in our society.

With my partner, we plan to cut ourselves off completely: resell our apartment in the resort, and find a more buried house in a rural area, to isolate ourselves even more, and live in complete autonomy.

"And to recall:"

I will not change my life by choice, like some city dwellers who feel cramped.

I will change my life because my economic sectors are dying.

“305,600 jobs were cut between January and September 2020, according to the latest data from INSEE.

Source: lefigaro

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