A New Normal

Today is my first day being apart of something normal again. Learning about the psychology of emotions from a book rather than through personal experience. Feeling the fabric of the seat of a lecture hall chair rather than the sheets of a hospital bed. Learning the examples of things that cause fear and anxiety rather than being the example itself. Yes, this is my first day back to a new normal and no, it is not Hofstra University in New York, but California State University. There is no Long Island Railroad to catch back to Bed-Stuy, instead it’s the I10 to downtown. What I am experiencing today isn’t the transfer from school to school or train to bus, but death to life, despair to hope... The promise of a new day and a new normal.