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Phrase: No end in sight
You’ll probably hear someone say there’s no end in sight out of exasperation.
It’s most often used to refer to adverse situations such as heatwaves, economic downturns or pandemics.
Generally speaking, people can better cope with a stressful situation if they know when it will end.
You can listen to the speech of a high school principal because you know it will eventually end.
However, this novel coronavirus pandemic is much more challenging because, at the moment, there is no end in sight.
Especially now since the most promising vaccine trials involving AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford have been halted.
We should never look at the end goal.
It may sound cliché, but we should always take one day at a time.
In reality, that’s all we can control.
Although humans like to make plans for the future, that’s all they are – plans.
We go about our everyday lives with no end in sight.
Besides, there are many situations where having no end in sight is a preferable thing.
Think about kids and summer vacation.
Remember how great that felt?
During the summers of my youth, I had camping with relatives, nightly BBQs, BMX biking, fishing, exploring, blueberry picking, and otherwise getting into all kinds of mischief to look forward to with no end in sight until the Labour Day weekend.
The Labour Day weekend is seen as the last long weekend of summer in North America.
It’s held on the first Monday of September.
There are some things we can’t wait to be over, while others we never want to end.
If you always look to the future, you will never enjoy today.
Who cares if there is no end in sight?
Today is all we have.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least an 8th-grade education (age 13 – 14).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 70.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.