The Post COVID World

I do strongly believe that if something has the power to shake the world as we know it, that power will not only influence the present but also the future. When the pandemic hit, it changed everything: people switched to work from home, schools & colleges started taking online classes, exams were online, people lost jobs, people died because of the corona virus, etc. But now, even though we have come past all that since now many companies are either working from the office or having a hybrid work setting, schools & colleges have resumed normal classes in a physical setting, I feel like the pandemic changed us and we still carry that change with us. The change I see is honesty, acceptance, rawness - I can't quite find a word to describe it but these are the closest words to the phenomenon I see. When I say honesty I mean speaking up our minds, after the pandemic people seem to have become more frank, more open, they speak their mind without being conscious of the effect that it might have on the listener. They don't seem to be worried about offending or disrespecting the listener whatsoever. If this is a good thing or bad, I do not know. And when I say acceptance, I am referring to accepting ourselves for what we are. After the pandemic, people just seem to accept themselves and their nature and they just seem to be acting on their instincts without giving it a second thought, just doing what they feel like without worrying about the consequences. And when I say rawness - I mean both the honesty and acceptance just seems to be so raw, so very natural, more unfiltered. Usually, pre covid, I felt like people had filters on their minds and mouths. They used to refrain from saying what they really feel and doing what they really want to but somehow the fear has vanished or perhaps a new braveness has implanted itself. Do you too feel like the world has changed?