and another thing...
The yearning to return to 'normal' is, maybe, a kind of emotional reflex, the yearning to 'go home again.' But 'home' was never how we recall it in our fantasies, and who we are now is not who we were then. We can own this, and make a better home, a better 'normal' than the one that actually brought us to where we are now. Sign in to see full entry.