How the pandemic made our personal lives feel like one daunting to-do list

I entered the pandemic aged 31 still riding the crest of the just-entered-my-thirties wave. I was unfazed about future plans, and not giving much thought to the next decade of my life. Somewhere between the second and third national lockdown in the UK, I felt that calm begin to ebb, and a deluge of panic rush over me. A list was...