The pandemic and political turmoil have been going on for so long, it can be hard to remember life before they started or to imagine life after they end. It's just one long stretch of time, but also no time at all, infinite and smaller at the same time, like going deeper and deeper and finding the same thing.

It's like living inside a Droste picture: A term for a picture that contains a smaller version of itself, which contains a smaller version of itself, and so on. This format works really well for memes as you can see with the images we've collected below. Maybe if you look closely enough at all these recursive images, you can go deep enough that things will be better once you come back out.