The COVID-19 pandemic has left millions with an empty feeling. Our lives have been disrupted beyond previous reasonable conception and with little warning. What seemed like a weeks-long strife has turned into months and has the potential to become years. Yet through it all, students are expected to shift to online lectures, employees are expected to shift to a remote workday and everyone is expected to find a way to carry on in this new life we’ve found ourselves in.
The feeling we share is grief. For some, grief in the traditional sense for the loss of a loved one, but for most, grief for the loss of our way of life.