Opinion Today: ‘I no longer want to shop’

The pandemic has changed every one of us. 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She writes that her new outlook is “like losing extra weight unexpectedly, without even trying or understanding why you lost it — mystifying, but undeniably liberating.” Still, it leaves her feeling a little flummoxed. The pandemic has changed every one of us. We’re all a little different today from who we were in early 2020. And even if we’re better for those changes — more conscious, less entitled, perhaps kinder — we will likely each find ourselves facing some difficult questions. If I don’t like the same things, am I still the same person? When a staple of life loses its thrill, how to replace it? Or, as Kaplan writes: “What will I do if I’m not preparing my face ‘to meet the faces that you meet,’ [as T.S. 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