Respectfully, meant without any criticism at all, my experience couldnt have been more different. Reading accounts like this is sort of a twilight zone experience.
The great lesson of the pandemic shutdown for me has been - how interesting, it turns out a large fraction of what society spends its time on is totally dispensable, and if it's removed in an instant we hardly miss it at all. It makes one wonder why society spent so much of its time on it pre pandemic.
Its hard to think of anything I really miss. I kind of miss restaurants, a little bit, but not that much. In hindsight, it was weird that we used to constantly eat food prepared by strangers behind closed doors instead of just making our own food.
(I fucking hate mandatory masks, but thats not something I miss about pre pandemic times so much as something I dislike about our pandemic response)
The point of my post is not to say you're wrong to have a different experience, its to remark on how 180 degrees different this thing has been for different people.
