MY earliest connection with the world of poetry was during my boyhood. At age five, I used to declaim during our family reunions as well as social gatherings in our local parish. My Tatang loved to heave me up on a chair in front of everybody to display my prodigious…
I want to be alone: We are all introverts now The pandemic has taught us to see the world through the eyes of people who avoid it
Sat, Feb 20, 2021, 06:00 Trevor White
Covid-19 mocks our assumptions about what to expect of tomorrow. The long-term effects are even less clear. Some experts tell us that the office is dead, and that trousers will remain optional in meetings. Others say we will party, spend and travel like never before, fuelling a second Roaring Twenties. Still others predict that we will become more responsible to the planet.
Some of these experts must have a degree in wishful thinking. All of them are chancers. For if this wretched pandemic teaches us anything, it is that a little humility is long overdue. Whisper it: as a species, we are not very good at reading the future. But of course, I would say that. I’m an introvert.