re: #195 plansbandc

I just explained this to my mother. I told her that even when restaurants open at lesser capacity, it’s still a really bad bet to sit and eat.

My mom is so bummed. She’s been on her own since dad passed. She needs to be with people. Her major forms of entertainment were dining out, going to movies, and seeing plays. She’s not good with computers or the internet and she’s not a big fan of TV.

I told her, when things relax, that she needs to decide the risk/reward of things. She’s an old lady who doesn’t know how to deal with the new reality. I fear for her in so many ways.

We are indeed living in interesting times. I wonder who it was who cursed us all?

Well, that is a Chinese curse … /s

I hope things can improve for your mother’s melancholy. I don’t know her, but I would suggest she might be more resilient than you think (she got this far). It might be worthwhile to suggest that resilience to her.

Anecdotally, one of my great-grandmothers was born in 1896. Her daughter was born in 1913. They went through everything from a Depression to two world wars, from rural electrification, the invention of automobiles and radio, to watching men land on the moon. My great-grandmother died in 1993 and my grandmother in 2005.