That very much depends on what "it" is.
On top of that, there may be no "normal lives to carry on" with. In other words, it might be hellish beyond our ability to comprehend.
Even the Bible warns that men's hearts will fail them for what is coming on the Earth.
We'll see. I'm not optimistic. If what's coming were positive, it wouldn't be so elusive.
And I've been routinely accused of being an optimist.;-)
My read of “the world” is that it is fractal.
That has some real interesting implications—but one of them is that there is both light and dark everywhere.
So—I am going with that.
;-)