2020: THE YEAR THAT SHOULD BE
For the longest time, the year 2020 evoked a magical feeling in most, when thought of as some year in the future. Here we are now, living in that future and I’m certain many don’t deem is as a magical year (in the good light, at least).Truly, the year has been a lot, even as we are barely past the first half, with each month come along with its own dose of problems; like a series of books with different themes. Even as the seeming worst of the worst have transpired in the course of the past few months: from Kobe’s death, the pandemic and its effects, the injustices and civil protests, to the looming global recession and canceled sports leagues mid-season and major events slated for the year without foreknowledge of how sharp a turn 2020 was going to take. Regardless, the year has certainly been good to some.
In the beginning of the year, before our lifestyles were rudely altered, I’m sure most made plans and projections for the year. From use of vision boards, journals to daily words of affirmation, we all had somehow convinced ourselves that 2020 was certainly going to be a swell year with the hopes of not reneging. We’ve been treated to a rude awakening however and some — if not most— of those fabulous plans have been; shelved, pocketed or sent down the drains.
Although 2020 might feel like a drag at this point, with us wistfully wishing it could be rebooted or better still canceled like it was an application, it can still be the year you wished for. What if 2020 was what we needed to help us do the much-needed self-evaluation we forget when juggling work, school and the stress of daily living? What if 2020 was meant to awaken us to the realization that what we thought to be ideals haven’t been much of that? What if 2020 was what we needed to put our acts together, assess things from a different perspective with 20-20 vision (pun intended)?
This is me urging you as much as myself to revisit the plans made in the wake of the year. Bucket lists aside for a moment, I’m talking feasible plans about various aspects of life that we seek growth and much-needed change. Get back behind the steering wheel and go ahead to make meaning out of what 2020 has become, on a personal level. Major events of the year might have been canceled but that shouldn’t mean your goals, dreams and aspirations should too. Make 2020 the year that you’d one day look back to and say: DESPITE ALL. . .
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In the beginning of the year, before our lifestyles were rudely altered, I’m sure most made plans and projections for the year. From use of vision boards, journals to daily words of affirmation, we all had somehow convinced ourselves that 2020 was certainly going to be a swell year with the hopes of not reneging. We’ve been treated to a rude awakening however and some — if not most— of those fabulous plans have been; shelved, pocketed or sent down the drains.
Although 2020 might feel like a drag at this point, with us wistfully wishing it could be rebooted or better still canceled like it was an application, it can still be the year you wished for. What if 2020 was what we needed to help us do the much-needed self-evaluation we forget when juggling work, school and the stress of daily living? What if 2020 was meant to awaken us to the realization that what we thought to be ideals haven’t been much of that? What if 2020 was what we needed to put our acts together, assess things from a different perspective with 20-20 vision (pun intended)?
This is me urging you as much as myself to revisit the plans made in the wake of the year. Bucket lists aside for a moment, I’m talking feasible plans about various aspects of life that we seek growth and much-needed change. Get back behind the steering wheel and go ahead to make meaning out of what 2020 has become, on a personal level. Major events of the year might have been canceled but that shouldn’t mean your goals, dreams and aspirations should too. Make 2020 the year that you’d one day look back to and say: DESPITE ALL. . .
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