A colleague and I were comparing notes on how we socialize — now that Covid lockdown is over.

(We both don’t socialize in the same way that we used to. We are more…wary. That was the upshot.)

She said an interesting thing, though. She said, “I don’t feel like I deserve to be social anymore.”

And I could totally relate.

The fallout of the pandemic isn’t just that we don’t socialize; or, even, that we don’t want to socialize as much as we used to (aka “I don’t really feel like going out.”).

It’s that we kinda have internalized this sense that it just isn’t something we ought to do.

Huh? True or False?