Remember How it Used to Be?

Opening Day 2018
Camden Yards, Baltimore, MD
March 29, 2018

With the social distancing that I have been practicing, I am wondering if I will ever be comfortable in a crowd at a baseball stadium again?

It is a weird thought.

Or how about being crammed into seats on an airplane? Or even the line to get through security at the airport?

I am incredibly suspicious of others and am diligently keeping my distance. I feel violated if someone encroaches on my personal space which has increased from 18 inches to 6 feet!

Will I ever be able to shake someone's hand again when I meet or say good-bye to them? 

And how about a hug? Will I ever hug again?

I am going to have to be deprogrammed from social distancing to return to normal. 

I wonder when the new normal will go away?

-- Bob Doan, Elkridge, MD