Happy New Year! Goodbye 2020!
This is just a short message of joy we’d like to spread, looking forward into a hopefully far more positive year. 2020 is now past and 2021 has just begun. Already we all feel a bit different. Sure we’re still in the grips of the pandemic, but vaccines are afoot and light is starting (barely) to creep into the tunnel. No doubt there is still a great deal of hardship ahead and now is NOT the time to let our guard down. Heck, recent news has been talking all about the new strain of the virus from the UK that spreads far easier than what we’ve already been saddled with. The strain is no more virulent, thank goodness, but still…I’m hoping this was 2020’s last gasp of negativity and that we’ll start to see a lot more breaks moving forward.
I did catch an amazingly funny, and slightly dark show on Netflix covering the particularly troublesome year that 2020 was, it’s worth a watch. Titled, “Death to 2020,” (above) the show stars Samuel L. Jackson, Lisa Kudrow and Hugh Grant, among others. Jackson is the main orator, interviewee, and then each other star (in a pretty long A-list) plays a satirical character and focuses on a particularly rough aspect of the past, troubling year. Full of comedy, it’s just what we need more of right now. So, enjoy!
A Chance to Reflect
With the days off most of us get around the holidays (even if it’s just these last couple around New Years), there’s a little time to reflect. No doubt 2020 has been, well, peculiar. I won’t list off all of the topics so well covered in Death to 2020, but I truly subscribe to the idea that, while tough, tragic and, well, downright infuriating at times, we are all coming out of this stronger and more aware of what really and truly matters to us. And while many people have lost their lives, and many their livelihoods, almost all of us have had to focus down on the core of what we truly need to live and make us happy. After all, when you’re shut off from family, friends and what normally are endless distractions, you see life with an entirely different degree of clarity. So, while hard (as heck), 2020 has done us some favors. Being a “cup-half-full” kind of person, this is how I am choosing to view the year. Take the opportunities it has afforded, celebrate them, and try our hardest to overcome the damage otherwise wrought. I mean, what else are you gonna do? So let’s “put it in the rear view,” but don’t forget its lessons. And still, we’re not out of the woods yet, so stay safe and let’s make 2021 far better than its one year younger cousin.
Here are some great articles about 2020 that are good for reflection. After such a wildly-potent year, we should glean as much out of this mess as we can!
12 things we never realized about ourselves in 2019, that 2020 has taught us
Valuable life lessons I learned in 2020
Reflecting on 2020: lessons learned in an extraordinary year
Cheers!