Sunday, January 30, 2022

The end of an era.


https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1ut0QCG86YVl1RMgk4rcI5xiMOe6pmVR4

His parties were always the biggest and most elaborate. I didn’t realize that this was over. I am in a sort of mourning right now of all the things the pandemic has taken. Which includes my son’s extreme extroverted personality.

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1O3x74XLAsY6pgPjraZmPVCeP24QvKhHv

He told me last week that he feels more like an ambivert now, he says that big groups now freak him out. That he feels he has to watch everyone and everything and feels responsible for people. Not only that but he has gained a lot of empath qualities because when others do something dumb or feel embarrassed, he feels embarrassed and frustrated, even if they don’t. They don’t care but he takes on all of those feelings for them.

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1taShYu2tCJL6QxNFK4W-rX8dXtumWzHs

It’s a huge change from last year or two years ago when he couldn’t wait to be the center of attention.

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1qjy2pPUxlnwcwAdYBV7BXw7HP35wTi6-

My heart hurts for what this time is doing to our kids. These types of changes in the world really do shape our lives. Just like the Spanish flu, the Great Depression, or any large war - just like that changed history, it also changed the people living through it. There are things that they went through that changed them at a fundamental level. Shifted their thinking and adjusted their personality. It isn’t new. But the things that are taken hurt just the same.

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1H6Y8A12p7DduQB1F404XHGx8uZKqbcXN

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1pwBQc-GBPBzj1-ec5qUVPQCr5Xdj7Ms8

(Logan at parties from past years- medieval plague, Sherlock Holmes, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, mad science, ninjas, super spy, Star Wars, and my favorite party of all time, the Monster Adoption party.)

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1m3cnmggFmC1T1wYlpcl-RU5vGxFATSy8

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1-cRfPNqBMHQCGRP5c1Xe04aSt5iKnHqj

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1t1YMJsf27J5utlijRuvc54Sgcm68kA6U

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1jae6GJ7Q8__8uhCVtqVh3w7thy4XCiKH
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