Dear Amy: When the pandemic started, people were sent to work from home. All many people could do was complain about how difficult this was.
Being a nurse and manager of a medical unit, I obviously did not get to work from home. Nor did I have any "boring" days like so many people complained about.
Many people settled into working from home and love it. Now they're complaining about having to go into an office a few times a month.
Speaking on behalf of those of us in the service industry, I wish people could appreciate their situation. Making every work setting or situation into a complaint is obnoxious for those of us who do not have these luxurious options.
Your take?
Amy says: I want to thank you for your service, and also for the invitation to ponder and potentially reframe a category of human inquiry that we should be grateful exists at all: post-pandemic problems.
So let me start by removing from its case the world's smallest violin and playing a plaintive tune for anyone who has the temerity to complain to a health care or service worker about the burdens of being called back into the office a few times a month.
Now for the reframing: We're back! We're back to overlooking our obvious lucky breaks (we're alive, being one) and already are starting to take for granted the simple privilege of being able to visit with, touch, hug and kiss one another.