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Carol Roodt, Randburg: Will the sun shine tomorrow on our lockdown?

We have to set sail like brave adventurers into tomorrow’s uncertain world, reckons this reader.

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While I realise that the sun will come out tomorrow (admit it, some of you sang that), one of the most difficult aspects of lockdown is the fact that I can’t really plan for tomorrow. Not the immediate tomorrow, the long-term tomorrow.

Tomorrow is so vague and there are so many possible options of what tomorrow might or might not look like, that it is too overwhelming to think about.

Jobs even scarcer now than before

To make matters worse, I was retrenched a few weeks before lockdown. Jobs are even scarcer now than they were before lockdown. It feels like being dumped by your boyfriend and then waking up two weeks later to find that all the men in the world have vaporised into the ether.

Tomorrow’s world will be different. It will be difficult. It is unknown.

‘Navigate without our current maps’

And yet, somehow we will have to navigate it without our current maps. It will need brave adventurers who, like our ancestors, sailed off into the unknown, with nothing more than a dream and excessive amounts of conviction.

The sun will come out tomorrow. I’m just not sure though, where it will shine on me.