The Ones We Love, London

We all need to hold the ones we love as close as possible (even if we can't in a purely physical sense), probably more so than ever before. It does feel as if life will be on hold forever but there will be a day when we will know what it will be like to feel free again.
This image is actually about the online world versus real life,  as it is the window of the Top Man/Top Shop retail "experience" on Oxford Street that is now no more as it has been bought by ASOS, or is it BooHoo, as a pure online business. All the employees who worked in those shops over many years, who formed bonds, and teams and relationships have been thrown on the scrapheap of new technology and I feel so sorry for them and their work colleagues. A computer screen and a click does not move the world forward emotionally and can suck us into a lonely world of individual, separate silos. Surely, a laugh, a look, a singular communication with another person, however fleeting, is so much more important than an algorithm that decides or influences our tastes, our emotions, our sadness, our anger, our joy or even our boredom.
At the moment with my job I'm communicating a lot with fellow work colleagues via e-mail yet it those that I see in person that I have a much stronger connection with. Even with masks on all the time we can still laugh, take the piss, swear, discuss workloads and have that "face to face" connection. It lifts my spirits far more than some electronic or social media conversation ever could.