Confined?
In times of confinement, in real life and on television, we are beyond confused to situate ourselves in the challenges of this new reality of ours that we find ourselves. After two years in a life, first online and then hybrid, it feels like we've only had a year compressed and full of emotions and turmoil.
But that feeling of the puppy in the car window, after days without going for a walk, is real. Is there anything better than seeing the world with your own eyes? Feeling the wind on your face and being able to see the sun, feeling hot, feeling cold because we are out of the house, out of the shelter that is our home.
A large part of the people who stayed at home office at the height of the pandemic adapted so well that they did not return to face-to-face work. Of course, for some companies this impact was positive, after all it reduces the cost of many face-to-face operations. Lately when you call a mobile phone or cable television operator you can hear the particulars of an attendant's home, as many are still at home office. Food began to be ordered through apps, helping the motoboy class to have a steady job and, in a way, keeping us in touch with our home.
But all these, and many other remote ways of working and living, have increasingly increased people's phobia of other people. We have never seen so many gratuitous insults, criticism on social networks, fights between couples and families, lack of respect for others in general. People have gained courage, because of the screen saver, to be criticizing someone behind a screen, and they think they can do anything. They are reclusive in their remote life thinking they can get in the trouble of everyone around them, from the neighbor to the celebrities on Instagram.
These are hard times for those who want to preach love huh! In times of conflict, people are becoming judges of other people's lives and they are very brave! The most acclaimed and beloved program that consists of locking up two dozen people for a few months in 2022 is going through a crisis: the participants wanted only peace and joy. And they started getting criticized for it, because they were in a game! Not on vacation. And then they stirred up new people to destabilize the people and the conflict began. Otherwise, the audience drops, because the people out here want to roll! But after chaos sets in, the same people say that cancellation is absurd! Make up your mind!
Today a friend told me that she returned to face-to-face work at the bank where she works. She said she needed new social clothes, after almost two years in the home office. She reported that her heels created blisters on her feet the first day she returned to the agency. I confess that the same thing happened to me when I returned to the face-to-face classes I teach at the university. It's a mixture of happiness, just like the puppy in the window leaving the house, with the comfort of wearing a sweatshirt on the couch, with the computer on your lap and a cup of coffee in your hand. I believe it's the feeling of 2022, the confusion!
But that feeling of the puppy in the car window, after days without going for a walk, is real. Is there anything better than seeing the world with your own eyes? Feeling the wind on your face and being able to see the sun, feeling hot, feeling cold because we are out of the house, out of the shelter that is our home.
A large part of the people who stayed at home office at the height of the pandemic adapted so well that they did not return to face-to-face work. Of course, for some companies this impact was positive, after all it reduces the cost of many face-to-face operations. Lately when you call a mobile phone or cable television operator you can hear the particulars of an attendant's home, as many are still at home office. Food began to be ordered through apps, helping the motoboy class to have a steady job and, in a way, keeping us in touch with our home.
But all these, and many other remote ways of working and living, have increasingly increased people's phobia of other people. We have never seen so many gratuitous insults, criticism on social networks, fights between couples and families, lack of respect for others in general. People have gained courage, because of the screen saver, to be criticizing someone behind a screen, and they think they can do anything. They are reclusive in their remote life thinking they can get in the trouble of everyone around them, from the neighbor to the celebrities on Instagram.
These are hard times for those who want to preach love huh! In times of conflict, people are becoming judges of other people's lives and they are very brave! The most acclaimed and beloved program that consists of locking up two dozen people for a few months in 2022 is going through a crisis: the participants wanted only peace and joy. And they started getting criticized for it, because they were in a game! Not on vacation. And then they stirred up new people to destabilize the people and the conflict began. Otherwise, the audience drops, because the people out here want to roll! But after chaos sets in, the same people say that cancellation is absurd! Make up your mind!
Today a friend told me that she returned to face-to-face work at the bank where she works. She said she needed new social clothes, after almost two years in the home office. She reported that her heels created blisters on her feet the first day she returned to the agency. I confess that the same thing happened to me when I returned to the face-to-face classes I teach at the university. It's a mixture of happiness, just like the puppy in the window leaving the house, with the comfort of wearing a sweatshirt on the couch, with the computer on your lap and a cup of coffee in your hand. I believe it's the feeling of 2022, the confusion!
Author : Mariana Goulart
Posted in: 02/21/2022
Last modified: 06/22/2026
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