That’s the question that my husband asked me last night.

We were watching the news which had a story about how the Melbourne City Council is trying to entice workers back into the city.

Our city is still feeling the effects of the long lockdown of 2020 where it felt we were all in our homes for the entire year. The local council is finding it difficult to get businesses and people back into the city to fill the many empty tall skyscraper buildings that are all mostly vacant.

Chatting about this, it made me think about what life would have been like if we didn’t have COVID. I think there would have been both good and bad elements that would have stemmed from it. At the same time, there was another news story about how University of Adelaide will now go fully online – that is, no face-to-face lectures at all. so it goes to show that maybe, if we didn’t have COVID then I don’t think something like this would have happened so soon.

I wonder what society would have looked like if things just plodded on as they did before?

One thing is for sure (or at least, that’s what I think) is that for all the negative things that COVID created in our society, there was also a lot of positives that came from it too. I particularly liked the jolt it gave to many to reassess aspects of their life to make a change, hopefully for the better. It also gave our environment a bit of a breathing space for regeneration.

I think if we didn’t have COVID my own life would have been different in the sense that I’d still be working because I would have been given the time for all that self-reflection and personal transformation where I got rid of the toxic people and thinking that set me behind in the past. Covid for me was a time to wipe the slate clean and refresh my thinking and approach to prepare myself ahead for new opportunities and challenges too. I think I came out of it a new person knowing that I don’t want anything to do with my old working life – and that’s a good thing.

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