After everything ended, after guns went silent and after roads opened again city started to live ?normal? again.
But it was ?normal? only for the people who have not lived through what happened. For the folks who gone trough all of that and survived nothing was and will be like before.
Whenever you watch TV or read newspapers about people or places or whole countries that have gone trough some shocking events, periods like war, earthquakes, famines or something similar, media folks gonna try to hook you with numbers of dead, cost of recovery in millions, amount of food that world is sending to the area, or number of troops that were needed to force opposite side to sign a peace treaty.
Read much more here:
http://shtfschool.com/survival-psychology/no-real-recovery/After SHTF, you will need to mentally prepare yourself that things will not just automatically go back to the way they were before. They won't, you may as well just get used to the change and that things are going to stay different or bad for a while.
