Jim Gaffigan: Are we naïve to believe it's over?

Happy Father's Day! I sincerely hope all the dads out there enjoy this special day of government-mandated paternal gratitude.

Being a father is amazing. It's the most important thing I will fail at, but can we focus on what we are all secretly thinking?

It's over! Can you believe it? I mean it is, right? Obviously, it isn't "over" over, but it's kind of over, right?

Finally!

And It's been a long time coming. Believe me. I didn't always look like this. Here is a picture of me from last March:

[Okay, that's a picture of me from college with my best friend in college, beer.]

Do you know how many commentaries I did about my experience, our shared experience, dealing with the last year-and-a-half? A hundred and fifty!

OK, fine, it was a lot.

Week 1: Family life under lockdownWeek 2: Life in quarantine is like a sitcomWeek 3: Spring arrives!Week 4: Lessons of "distance learning"Week 5: Kids, quarantine and sanity are not compatibleWeek 6: Consuming all news, all the timeWeek 7: Jim Gaffigan discovers he misses strangersWeek 8: On sharing dinner with the massesWeek 9: On living in unprecedented timesWeek 10: Are we REALLY all in this together?Week 11: On not knowing what comes nextWeek We Stopped Counting: Jim Gaffigan on what dads REALLY want on Father's DayJim Gaffigan on getting the whole lockdown thing wrong2020, please turn your notifications offJim Gaffigan on his first drive-in standup showOn living in a time warpOn acquiring a green thumbBack to (home) schoolSummer memories, '50s styleBlondes' bad rapOn the painstaking, belabored marathon of an electionOn saving face while wearing a maskJim Gaffigan's 2020 set to musicJim Gaffigan's 2020 waitlistWhy can't Jim Gaffigan find his TV remote?Jim Gaffigan on Super Bowl LV: The GOAT vs. the KidPandemic anniversary: Jim Gaffigan marks one year of lockdownJim Gaffigan: Take a hike!Jim Gaffigan, father of five, picks his favorite

And now, it's over!

It is, right? I don't know why I'm hesitant to say it's over. Is that being superstitious? I'm just being realistic. Well, optimistic. I'm being an optimistic realist in assuming it's over.

What if those of us that think it's over are being naïve? Have we learned nothing from the last 15 months? How many times did we think we saw the light at the end of tunnel only to realize it was just another news alert on our phones about some other string being pulled from the fabric of normalcy?

Don't we remember the ending of "Friday the 13th," when the girl thinks she has survived the nightmare, only to be attacked in the moment of relief?

I'm just being silly. It's over!

(I'm not going to say WHAT is over, 'cause, you know, I don't want it coming after me.)

Anyway, Happy Father's Day. Oh, and kids: Enjoy camp this summer! Look out for Jason!

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Story produced by Julie Kracov. Editor: Lauren Barnello.

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