Your Brain Has Already Made This Normal

How to adapt more easily to a strange new reality

Photo: Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash

I was going through my typical quarantine day — sweatpants on, couch-bound, a Zoom happy hour scheduled for later that evening — when it hit me: I’d settled into a rhythm. I wasn’t chafing against the confines of quarantine the same way I had in the beginning. I’m not sure when it happened, but at some point in…