Allow yourself to proceed at your own pace. My response is always the same. Give yourself permission to proceed at your own pace, step by step, according to your own comfort level.
We can’t control the decisions that other people make. But if you feel the need to tip-toe back into the new world, if you need to wear your mask on the street or in the grocery store, even if you don’t have to anymore, then do so.
If you aren’t ready to eat in a restaurant, you don’t have to force yourself. We’re all a little, or a lot, traumatized by the events of the past year, the upheaval wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic.