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THE BREAD AISLE

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Today I went to one of my least-favorite places…the supermarket. After so much worry about shortages, I thought perhaps I should get a couple loaves of my favorite bread, just in case.


The picture above depicts what I saw when I turned the corner of the bread aisle, and the cashier assured me that it was completed stocked just this morning! Other aisles were the same, no toilet paper of course, but also no tuna, no frozen vegetables (my puppy is vegetarian and I didn’t want to run out) and the list goes on and on. I began to rethink my retort of “Don’t be ridiculous!”, made to friends who told me they were buying up toilet paper and other staples just last week. (did I mention I finished up by rolling my eyes when they turned their backs?)


If this is the ‘new normal’, we would all gladly accept the normal of yesteryear,

Article, after article, we read about the doom that lays ahead. Curfews, national shutdown and more and it made me start to think. If this is the ‘new normal’, we would all gladly accept the normal of yesteryear, when there were no megastores (I would have had to buy flour in a case like this and make my own bread in my grandmother’s day); no internet (remember looking things up in the Encyclopedia Britannica if you were lucky enough to have a set?); no 24 hour news (6:00 with Walter Cronkite was the only game in town) and little worry about an outbreak such as COVID-19 (though more than 20 million people did die worldwide during the Spanish Flu pandemic in 1918).


Life was simple then, and though the conveniences of today really do make life a lot easier for the most part, those days did have a lot of wonderful appeal that’s just missing in 2020.

While standing in line to pay for the 24 packages of frozen peas and carrots, lima beans and black eyed peas I finally found for Bella’s dog food, I reminisced about going to the neighborhood market as a child for anything my mother needed for the day. The store owner would put the items I picked up on a bill that she paid at the end of the week. Lots of other good memories of the 50s and 60s ran through my head and put a smile on my face. I would certainly trade parts of my life of excess today for those simpler times, where we crowded around a small black and white television (with a scientifically-bent hanger for an antenna) for 30 minutes of news a day…we got what just we needed from Mr. Cronkite and life went on.


There are many things I miss about those years and it’s fun reminiscing. It also puts things into context to help me deal with what’s going on today. I may not understand what I’m oftentimes being confronted with right now, but I do know that life will go on, the ‘new normal’ is ever evolving and I’ll always have great memories of a time gone by, when my mom just put the lock on the pink princess phone in the hallway, when designated talk time was finished.


What memories do you have of your youth? It could have been 60 years ago, like mine (sometimes, I can't believe we made it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyRV4Fe7Wz0), 20 years ago, like my daughter’s or even 5 years ago like my twin grandsons. I’d love to hear from you and visualize the same experiences you enjoyed in your youth. Please share them with me here. This forum is for you.


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Mya

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