Síona Cahill: I don’t know what 'normal' is but if it’s anything like life before Covid, I don’t want it

This might be the roughest part of the pandemic. And when we do resume our lives, we ought to do better than mere 'normal'

'It won't always be like this': The title of Inhaler's album, released in March, took on new meaning as a mural by artist Emmalene Blake on Chatham Row near Grafton St, Dublin. Picture: Leah Farrell/RollingNews

Everyone is talking about getting back to normal and ‘returning’ to work. Normal? I don’t want a bit of it. Normal wasn’t so great in the first place.

Normal was bumper-to-bumper before daylight landed. Normal was fast-paced, always busy, full-on and — for many people — unsustainable. A health pandemic certainly didn’t address any of that, but one way I don’t think we should go is backwards.