- Monday during his televised address, Emmanuel Macron targeted the date of May 11 to begin a gradual deconfinement in France.
- For weeks, the majority of the population has been forced to stay at home. A time conducive to reflection on his own life, and what will be his future.
“I am going to give up everything to become a goat farmer in Larzac. So yes, we are used to having loved ones share this kind of wish with us. And, we have to admit, usually we don't take it into account more than that. Except that confinement has passed through there and that simple questioning or illusory projects have started to take a rather concrete turn for some.
Readers of 20 Minutes , like everyone else, have had a plethora of time to take stock of their way of life. And if there is one thing they have in common, it is that they no longer want it as it is. Small or big changes, for them tomorrow will be different. Frank went around the question: "I was born in 1986, I did not know a war, but I will know a pandemic. These turning points in history call us to rethink what we are, who we are. My next life is much more local. No travel, no mass tourism, but on the contrary, getting closer to nature. Far from the city and its tumult ... A quiet, peaceful life ... I no longer want this life where everything has to go fast. ", He says. A desire to go green that Stéphanie shares: "I would like to go back to living in the countryside, near my parents, to have a vegetable garden, chickens, a dog ..."
I love you, I don't love you anymore
The coronavirus crisis will have forced couples to stay away, while it will have locked others in sometimes cramped housing. If, rest assured, this may very well happen, for others the confinement will have been the last straw. Whether to remedy the absence of the loved one, or to move away from it permanently. Nicolas decided to take the plunge: “I live in Paris and work in the banking sector. I am 38 years old and I decided to move to Lyon to find my partner Arnaud. I am very apprehensive about this change but I realize that I don't want to waste time. "
Quite the opposite of what Camille is going through: “I intend to separate from my spouse. The confinement made me realize that our lifestyles are completely different. It's something I already knew more or less after several years of living together, but there was a click. A brutal spotlight on things too important to be compromised. "
This time i quit my job
Lack of activity, or partial activity, will also have had an effect on the relationship that everyone has with their work. Among the testimonies that we have received, some no longer consider their employment in the same way and even go so far as to question its usefulness. A quest for meaning that will push some, like Vincent, to change everything: "I am a notary's collaborator. The Covid-19 episode brought me to think about and question the values of life. Indeed, this will have made me think and have opened my eyes that the quest for profitability is not happiness. I wish to apply in the public service, more particularly in the competition for school teachers. In this way, I think I can find more human values and in harmony with myself. "
A brutal change of mind that can also be found in Nathalie: “Before this confinement, it was unimaginable for me to stay at home, my obsession was my job, my career. And, as incredible as it may seem, I thrive in this new role of stay-at-home mom! From there to say that I will stop working by leaving no. But I realized that self-fulfillment can not go through simpler things and that putting pressure on yourself at work does not bring as much satisfaction. I will definitely change jobs, find a job that makes sense but also allows me to spend more time with family! "
" I'm fed up "
If these changes are motivated by a desire to find certain "values", they are imposed on others, especially in the medical field: "Being a nurse, I think this crisis has finished disgusting me about this great job. I really love it deep inside, but that you cannot exercise in good conditions… ”, regrets Nathalie. An observation shared by Anthony, pharmacist: “I realized during this crisis that I would have preferred to stay at home, confined, rather than going to work with a lump in my stomach. Our studies have not prepared us for this kind of situation, and the management of the crisis has been particularly poor. If we add to that the aggressiveness of certain patients, I'm fed up. I had chosen this job to care for people, not to be everyone's fuse… ”
Five “little” weeks which will therefore have started 180 degree turns for some of you. Hoping that, like Isabelle, this imposed time of reflection will encourage you to “appreciate life even more. "
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