When I started this blog nearly a year ago I did not have any idea what a unrelenting disaster 2020 would become. Maybe I can blame this years misfortunes on my very sporadic (almost absent really) posting, or at least for the lack of will to do so.
The year began with a small dark cloud that was a novel virus, that turned into a massive thunderstorm that swept across the globe, pouring chaos down unto the world. Even today as I write this on New Years Eve, just a few hours local time until it is officially a new year, we are still in the grip of the coronavirus pandemic. We are learning to live differently, more cautiously as to not spread the disease to loved ones or strangers. We are trying to be more patient with super market workers and each other and most of us are washing our hands obsessively (as least I am!).
Time over the past year seemed to stand still as if we were all collectively frozen in place while the trees and grass grew around us, in a state of shock and morbidity dominated by nothing but negativity on the TV and internet, at each other throats like starving lions devouring an antelope.
But there were glimpses of hope and goodwill, humans showing compassion towards one another by practicing kindness in all sizes big and small, so that we may all make it through this together. If we only take one lesson from this year it is that we all need to be more understanding. We can disagree but still find a middle ground, and on that ground we can build anew, build a society that is inclusive and forgiving, gentle and compassionate, free and equal.
I have been trying to work on myself to become and instrument of that new world, I have been trying to push aside my anger, lay to rest my dread and embrace myself as an individual amongst the collective on a personal mission to leave the world better than when it found me. I hope you will do the same dear reader, and I wish you the very best in the new year, may it bring you happiness, health, and prosperity.
Also, I will try to post more this year. lol.