Our post-pandemic selves: why the virus is an opportunity to grow and develop

How times of struggle can pave the way for new ways of life – and for some, the quest for small joys. "In the coming months we will grow to understand the long-term effects of social distancing. Given experts’ anticipation that the safety measures we’re taking today will become a part of society’s “new normal”, with reoccurring periods of quarantine lockdown, it follows that we, like our world, will change. We are all sharing in misfortune; hopefully we will find some liberation, too." Adrienne Matei, writing in the Guardian, explains.