To Go or Not to Go? That is the Question.

 

Above, Daniel Zawacki, a volunteer for the Hong Kong Holocaust and Tolerance Center, congratulates Eva Schloss, the step sister of Anne Frank, after her  January 2020 talk about surviving  Auschwitz.

Our younger son Daniel still living and working in Hong Kong spent the last couple of months trying to decide if he should come home for the holidays. Things heated up this week as the deadline for deciding approached.  One can leave Hong Kong and one can return, but the return looks like fourteen days of surveyed quarantining in an approved hotel. No options.

Daniel and I went back and forth as we do. The pros, the cons. The risks, the fears. We analyzed the situation from every angle.  We shed a few tears.  Finally, it was the Quarantining that put the nail in the coffin.  Too brutal!

Daniel apologized to me. Regretfully, he would not be coming home this year. I understood completely. To go or not to go is the painful question for all travelers in 2020, and especially painful between mother and son. Hopefully, next year at some point the answer will be a joyful affirmative so that  mother and son will be reunited. Fingers crossed.