Olga Khazan says you can be a different person after the pandemic: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/06/opinion/covid-personality-change.html
After all, the person who emerges from quarantine doesn’t have to be the same old you. Scientists say that people can change their personalities well into adulthood. And what better time for transformation than now, when no one has seen you for a year, and might have forgotten what you were like in the first place?
… now, it appears the idea that our personalities are immutable is also not quite true. Researchers have found that adults can change the five traits that make up personality — extroversion, openness to experience, emotional stability, agreeableness and conscientiousness — within just a few months.
Like almost everyone around you, you have lost, gained, stressed, adapted. Some change in personality is going to be inevitable, I think. You may not even have the power or drive to be deliberate about it or influence it. The only question then is how conscious you will be of this change. So that over time, in less trying circumstances, you can mould it forward or backward.
(Via Jason Kottke https://kottke.org/21/04/you-can-be-a-different-person-after-the-pandemic)