I try my best to shower first, or maybe I should exercise first or maybe I should eat first. But what I’ve learned in quarantine is that you can be nostalgic for things that never happened — your 27th birthday party, the family trip you’d planned to Peru. Perfectly perched on them is a hummingbird, his heart beating 1,260 times per minute. But he stays and stays and stays. As one explorer wrote in 1912, ‘What is worth what?’ When quarantine is over, I’ll be a different person.

Source: New York Times May 21, 2020 18:56 UTC