Unprecedented is the word most commonly used to describe 2020. We are in May, spring has passed and summer breezes in, and we still live in unprecedented times.
Unprecedented, Unexpected, Unsure, there might be many more adjectives to describe the times that we live in but what is undeniable is the impact this year will leave on all of us.
The world has lived through epidemics before, far more deadly and destructive . A highly interconnected world extrapolates the scale of what happens in one part of the world and its impact on another.
When Prime Minister Abe declared a state of emergency on April 6, 2020, we accepted what was already known, but not acknowledged, that we despite living in one of the cleanest and organized societies in the world were as much affected as the rest of the world.
The experience of living under the emergency was not extraordinary , adapting to the restrictions on living was easy. The struggle is in returning to a normal life.
The effort is to capture the actions that lead us back to a life we have started to forget.