Goodbye 2020

It’s been a marvellous time, this year that is coming to a close. It has been wonderful and terrible and full of joy and full of fear. This year was unlike anything we thought it would possibly be. It contained the entire human experience, which is to say it was bitter sweet. 

There was countless proclamations, decorations, and prophecy’s about how this year was gonna be the year. So many of us come April snubbed our noses at 2020 because it wasn’t shaping up to look how we wanted. 


There came a choice, you could sit back and let life run you down with a truck or you could grab it by the horns and refuse to let it leave you in the dust. I don’t blame you if you sat down and took a much needed rest. There’s no shame if you ran with the rest that made itself more available than ever before. 


This year may not have been the year you got your life “on track.” It might not have been the year you “got it together.” It may not have been the year of keeping goals or achieving great success. But is was the year we all reset. 


It was the year we all took stock of what really mattered and threw out what didn’t. It was the year we finally looked inward and saw what made us us. Took that first real look at who we truly were and discovered that was holding us back. 


This year was far from perfect and had more tragedy than most but this year it was an opportunity. To see what was important, to make a change great or small, to run after a dream, or just take a long vacation. This year may have been wrapped like a curse but inside it was a gift. 


It was the year of high highs and low lows. It was the year we all woke up. Woke up and decided we didn’t want to stop and smell roses, we wanted to slay dragons and see the world. It was the year of leaning to take ownership for our own destinies. 


This year is one for the history books. Because if nothing else one day you’ll be able to look at your children and say “see this, this crazy chaotic mess of year, the one where we thought it was all coming to a terrible end? I survived this. I’m still breathing, I’m still going. I’m still here.” 


Goodbye 2020 it’s been fun,

and Hello 2021 it’ll be great.

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