And our burdens too

They are snippets of life, journeys and people who stop for a few seconds, who show what they carry within them.
May 11, day 1 of the end of the first quarantine. We catch our breath, we take the remains of us, stuck in a two-speed routine, to the street. We try, we succeed or we fail. We pretend. A little bitterness, but a hint of hope. We believe in it and then no more. We go for it, then we stop dead. We don’t have landmarks anymore, we look for them, we search everywhere. With soiled hands and a tight throat, we resume our role and play it. But everything seems wrong. And it’s here, it’s back! Our everyday life, our normal, our compass. Our habits. The way we love them, the way they fill us.
Our little joys are back, our little pleasures. And our burdens too.
Is this really what we’re looking for?