What you are going through strikes a chord. Sort of feels as if we have moved from Schopenhauer’s “It’s as though the world were a dream dreamed by a single dreamer in which all the dream characters dreamed you” to James Joyce’s line from Ulysses: “History is a nightmare from which I’m trying to awake.”
Of course, the two aren’t mutually exclusive – and the “now” definitely has that dreamlike, nightmarish quality – something we’re all experiencing together, which seems to amplify the experience manyfold. There is no doubt we are living through a significant historical moment: 2020 will be long remembered as a crucial year and a major turning point – but turning to what?
Stay tuned . . .