First post of 2021...so much to say, but not now. What I will say is, the new year does not automatically mean that 2020 and the negativity attached to it is over, per se...but, the changing of the calendar year is a good starting point for some sort of optimism, whether the good comes or not. It is a change in direction of vision and a chance to adjust our individual perspectives and attitudes. I mean, if you sit backwards in a moving car, you are still going to reach the same destination, but the trip will seem different. Turning and facing forward may be a refreshing perspective after sitting backward for many miles.
I am hopefully and cautiously optimistic that the barriers placed before me personally in 2020 will yield, but I am realistic that it will not happen right away. I had mentioned to someone last night that I think it will be at least March or April before anything constructive changes for the better, if at all, in my world personally. But, that is all guess work. I am setting the bar low to keep my disappointments manageable, and to make my wins in life seem more meaningful. I have no illusion that the changing of the calendar means that the worst is over. I am prepared for more bad before any good. Bad is just the new normal.
2020 for me is easily one of the worst years ever on many levels. Certainly many others have it worse, and many have been largely unaffected by the events of the past year. It was just my time in life to have some humility thrust upon me. It was a perfect storm of events to affect me personally...professionally, financially, medically, emotionally, psychologically, socially. I am not the same person I was before March. 2020 has shown me things, made me feel things, and the bell cannot be unrung. It is up to me whether that bell tolling is noise to drive me mad, or can be turned into a tune to be the soundtrack of my future.
So, I bid a wish of a Happier New Year to you all, and I will keep a hopeful outlook for positivity, and will try to find the positivity in whatever reality is dealt to me, without wallowing in self pity or defeat. This too, shall pass, and if it should not, we will just have to make the best of what is handed us.
I am hopeful that we as a society will have learned some lessons, and we as a society will take notes and make changes. I am hopeful we as a society can do better somehow. In the past year, I have seen the absolute best, and unimaginable worst in everyone, friends, foes, strangers and most of all our leaders. I definitely have my eyes open, my mouth shut, and am processing all of this on a daily basis. I do not have much faith in humans to do the right things for the right reasons. So here we are...
Well that got darker than I wanted for a New Years Day message, HAHA, but, Happy New Year to you all. Make the best of it, and be kinder to others. Golden rule, and all that.
