A Different Kind of World: A Perspective on Life in the Midst of a Global Pandemic Lockdown

by Rand Morimoto

I entered 2020 with a dozen international travels trips hitting five continents booked across the first ten weeks of the year, with meetings overlapping one another spanning global time zones around the clock. Global stock markets were hitting all-time highs, 10-mile commutes in the San Francisco Bay Area took 90-minutes or more, weekends family activities were booked up solid 4-5 months into the year, life was insanely busy, and then it all changed…The pandemic lockdown caused by COVID-19 forced an unprecedented shutdown of schools, stores, restaurants, sporting events, international and domestic travels, normal daily activities worldwide came to a halt.I’m going to take this opportunity to jot this down now. When things start up again, if life picks up in the insanely busy schedule where it left off a few weeks ago, I may never have the same thoughts, feelings, and perspective as I do now.I challenge those who read this book to also stop for a moment, jot down some of your thoughts in the midst of all that’s going on, it’ll be interesting for all of us years from now to go back and read about this unique moment in time…

37 pages, Paperback

Published May 1, 2020