Not ready for reopening

Searching2020 said:

Hi guys. This is my first time posting here. I just have something I want to get off my chest and this seemed like the best place to express this. With the whole pandemic thing starting to wind down and things reopening, I struggling to see how I will adapt to this new way of life. Or more accurately I know how I’ll adapt to it and unfortunately, it’ll probably be that I just won’t go a lot of places anymore. This whole Covid thing has made me very paranoid of going out the house. Even when everything opens up again, I can’t see myself going out to eat or to the movies, etc. thinking every surface I touch or every person I meet could potentially kill me (or give me something that I might carry to one of my loved ones and hurt them)! I’m already normally pretty introverted. But these past few years I had been trying to get out more and enjoy things like being with friends and traveling. Now that looks to be over. I’ll probably just go to work, occasionally go to visit family and just watch my local church services online. At least until there’s a vaccine for this. I know life will go on, but I’m asking myself is this type of life worth living? Anybody else feel like this?

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I think this whole thing is designed to teach mankind that He is Our Healer and not man. I pray that we will rejoice always and pray ceaselessly and have the understanding that the world is ours because of His Victory.

1 Corinthians 15
55 “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?”

The dragon is already dead...and thrashing...like a snake without a head...


*Welcome btw

I'm sorry you have found yourself in this position.

Perhaps you will be able to relate to something I experienced. I have a bit of fear of flying. It comes and goes, sometimes stronger, sometimes more tolerable. The career that I really loved required between 40,000 and 60,000 air miles per year. I really loved my job, but every time I got into an airplane I had to talk myself back from anxiety, bordering on sometimes near panic. Each time the anxiety came up I asked myself if I wanted to be in bondage to the anxiety or do the things I loved, and each time I chose not to be in bondage.

It seems you are in a similar state - anxious but not paralyzed with anxiety. If I were you, I'd force myself to get out more until it stopped being a question... each time you are anxious make a decision as to whether you will live in bondage to your anxiety or whether you will enjoy your life more fully.

Btw, I'm also a born introvert, although my career (sales) forces me to find my extroverted side, so I can relate on that level also.

May God bless you, and strengthen you to enjoy His wonderful creation and the fellowship of the body of Christ richly and fully.
E.

Searching2020 said:

Hi guys. This is my first time posting here. I just have something I want to get off my chest and this seemed like the best place to express this. With the whole pandemic thing starting to wind down and things reopening, I struggling to see how I will adapt to this new way of life.

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At your age, the risk of dying from Covid-19 is only a few times that of dying from the flu.

How much did the threat of dying from flu terrify you last year?

Searching2020 said:

Hi guys. This is my first time posting here. I just have something I want to get off my chest and this seemed like the best place to express this. With the whole pandemic thing starting to wind down and things reopening, I struggling to see how I will adapt to this new way of life. Or more accurately I know how I’ll adapt to it and unfortunately, it’ll probably be that I just won’t go a lot of places anymore. This whole Covid thing has made me very paranoid of going out the house. Even when everything opens up again, I can’t see myself going out to eat or to the movies, etc. thinking every surface I touch or every person I meet could potentially kill me (or give me something that I might carry to one of my loved ones and hurt them)! I’m already normally pretty introverted. But these past few years I had been trying to get out more and enjoy things like being with friends and traveling. Now that looks to be over. I’ll probably just go to work, occasionally go to visit family and just watch my local church services online. At least until there’s a vaccine for this. I know life will go on, but I’m asking myself is this type of life worth living? Anybody else feel like this?

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God's protection for you is the same post covid 19 as it was pre-covid 19.

Just be smart. Be aware and be creative. Of course life is still worth living.

Dont see what is wrong with exercising caution til the vaccine is available - just not fearful.