“I’ll be glad when this is over”

NO.
No, you won’t. You won’t be “glad,” and this won’t be “over.”
I’ll tell you why my friend, so have a seat & pour yourself a seductively aromatic, hot as hell cup of fresh-ground Colombian from my trusty carafe and listen-in to what I have to say for a little while…

Or go back to scrolling. You may find the answer you’re searching for in the next TicTok or meme that pops up on your feed.
 
The pressure you’re feeling, the pressure we’re all feeling today, these are no different than yesterday’s. You may believe your despondency has been caused by all that happens around us in the current moment,* but I assure you, it has not.

NO.
Nope, that’s not it.
Here’s why.
You won't be “glad when it's over” because you haven't been “glad,” and I mean Truly Happy, about anything in so long you forgot how to tell the difference. The difference between the distinct, continuous peace and happiness that comes from a purposeful, meaningful life well-lived, and the alternative of a quick and easy temporary relief. A fleeting reprieve from the day-to-day pressures we are all now facing seems as legit as anything in the bottom of a crack pipe or a gin bottle to the addict who covets it, loosely based on the last time he or she was transported “away from it all” using that same substance.

No.
Nope, that’s not it.
“Glad when this is over” is your admission to an inability to deal with the present, the now, and the fact that what we are all experiencing at this very moment in our lives is truly worth experiencing. Again, for those in the back: these experiences we're all grinding on through are WORTH EXPERIENCING! Positive or negative, good or bad, our influences and experiences build our knowledge, our beliefs, our values and our convictions. To say that you wish to skip over times like these is an admission to skipping over the building of those foundational cornerstones that make each one of our life experiences unique. You are relinquishing the beauty, joy and yes, the PAIN too. The “feels” of learning are what you wish to push to another time, when it’s “easier” or perhaps to a time and place where a softer, gentler way is discovered to move through this life we are all living.

So no, NO, I cannot agree that you (think you) will be “glad when it’s over.” I have admonished myself to this fact, perhaps you could entertain that thought too, if you’re so persuaded by my muse…

Only when you can be in touch enough, nay, in constant contact with your innermost feelings of pain, love, loss, disagreement, unfairness and utter chaos can you be “glad.”
 
  
“Glad when this is over” is the idea that rather than deal with the pressures, changes, chaos (that word can be fruitful, if you can embrace it fully and with aplomb) and utter unpredictability of what’s happening NOW, you are electing to “sit it out.” YOU are choosing inaction over action, passive to active, lifelessness over LIVING. For all of the businesses, people and even all of the IDEAS that chose to shut down and withdraw when our world started rapidly changing in March of 2020, you have made the decision to stand by and “let it all happen” as the very concepts, values and ideals that you were raised with come into question.

So no, NO, DON’T "look for it to be over,” as you’ll be looking into a broken mirror, don’t you see? Distorted, fragmented and full of more missing pieces than found ones...

Learn instead to dance in the rain, rather than search in vain for an overpriced umbrella from store-after-store of locked doors and empty promises.
"Glad when this is over" means you're dead. Physically, spiritually, mentally, completely, dead. 6 feet under. Lights out. End of story. IDK about you, but I’ll continue to be HAPPY that I’m ALIVE.

I’ll not be “glad when it’s over,” because I’m GLAD right here, right now. GLAD that I get to experience it; this beautiful, ugly, invigorating and exhausting life we’re all given the gift of and the chance to LIVE.

IF we choose to.

Now I ask you, what's YOUR choice?
 
*From the 3rd paragraph, including but not limited to: A national and global pandemic, including the myriad of tributaries it has entwined; our countries’ raging power struggle; upcoming elections; <which today uniquely include anger, hopelessness and sorrow towards those close to you that predict/produce/possess a different outlook or value system that seems all-too-touchy to talk about> obscure external triggers including social media and news from every source that seems more frequent and amplified; the stock market; the job market; the economy; racism, Civil Rights, the weather getting colder, the weather getting hotter, all that and more, brought to you by our sponsor: Today’s American Pop Culture.