How nostalgia lifts the mental load of lockdown
I got a head start preparing for the upheaval in our lives this past year, and it’s helped me cope with not being able to travel home for the holidays.
This content was published on December 24, 2020 - 11:00
December 24, 2020 - 11:00
Dale Bechtel
Dale began his career at Swiss Radio International, the predecessor of SWI swissinfo.ch, in the 1990s. He reports on everything and anything happening in the Swiss Alps, from politics and climate change to tourism.
A few years ago I experienced an individual “lockdown” while recovering from minor knee surgery. Sitting for long periods on my outdoor deck with little to do, my mind wandered back to the last time I had seen old college friends in Toronto. And forward to the time I would see them again.