Looking Ahead: When 2020 Hasn’t Been 20/20

I’ve been taking this week to really reflect, listen, and learn. There is so much going on in the world right now, and some moments make me swell with pride and others make me want to pull the covers over my head and cry. There have been so many memes and jokes about how hopeful we were going into this year — we all frantically waved goodbye to 2019 and sprinted toward 2020 — only to realize that completely uncharted territory was ahead of us. Goodbye road, hello trail with zero signs and lots of cliff edges?

There has also been a lot of talk about skipping 2020 and heading straight into 2021, and that is because 2020 so far has been upsetting. And I mean that in numerous ways — it has literally been an upset of what we have known and are used to. So far 2020 has challenged us and has been full of fear, sadness, illness, violence, death, natural disasters, and unrest. I understand that people are counting down the days until 2021 and wanting to get back to how their previous lives were. I’ve felt it too. Believe me, I seriously can’t wait to be crammed in a middle seat on an airplane, pay an outrageous price for a beer at a concert, and wait in ridiculously long porta potty lines at events again. However, there is no doubt in my mind that the way things were is not going to be how they will be in the future.