I don’t want my old life back
FOMO, Fear Of Missing Out, has become HTMO: Happy To Miss Out
Normality rages
The temptation is great. Many things seem to become possible again post-COVID. Gradually, normality returns, albeit often with three steps forward and two steps back.
The European Championship, Wimbledon, celebrations and live culture are returning, more or less in doses.
Does the limitation of these events with few viewers make them even more desirable?does this increase the fear of missing out?
Crazy
The motto of this year’s Summer Festival of Music in Lucerne is: Crazy. A smart topic that raises awareness in two ways.
The composer Robert Schumann was declared insane after a suicide attempt and was committed to an asylum. His brilliant work is currently experiencing a renaissance with Christian Gerhaher and Gerald Huber. The number of Schumanians is growing.
As a result of the pandemic, perceptions of the old life have also changed.
“I don’t have to do this to myself any longer”
In the past week, we have heard this phrase from three sides at once:
The successful bank manager meant that in his private life he is no longer willing to spend time with people who lack respect and courtesy.
The pharmacist weighs more and more what takes away from her life time and joy and focuses on the rest.
The CFO states that he will gladly dispense with unsolicited advice from people who have no idea in the future.
For all three individuals, the radicality with which they implement these resolutions has increased as a result of the pandemic experience.
The fear of missing out has turned into the desire to gladly do without.
No celebration without Meier is so yesterday
Involuntarily, a retreat has occurred for most of us. The in-person experiences turned into online events. Although almost all travel was eliminated, most experienced this period as even more work-intensive and strenuous than before in professional terms.
The appreciation of lifetime has increased. The fear of having to be there has given way to the feeling of enjoying doing things that at first glance seem to have less prestige, but are more relaxing for the soul.
Freedom instead of finger food
The inevitable distance has at the same time brought a greater reflection on the superficiality of many events.
As much as it hurt to delete appointments from the calendar at the beginning of the pandemic, we suddenly feel a great reluctance everywhere to fill our private calendars to the brim again as quickly as possible.
For some, an hour in the Botanical Garden is now more desirable than many a small talk over finger food and drinks.
What GloriousMe has learned from this
An investment of time only where brain and heart are in equal measure.
Know-it-all attitude coupled with merciless self-promotion: Without us. Find a different audience.
Star restaurant or simple wine bar: With pleasure and with gusto. Gastronomy without hospitality? We prefer to stay at home.
And with a happy disposition: Happy to miss out. We don’t want our old life back.
