2020: The Movie/Book We Didn’t Ask For!
It appears that we’ve been thrusted into the arms of a lover who is relentless with their abuse. Us poor, unsuspecting fools have been getting beat the hell up since late-February, early March with terrible news after terrible news. We have begged this lover to stop and go away but nope; again and again, they continue to show their face, restraining order be damned.
2020 is that lover. 2020 is that strange, strange time we’re going to look back on in tears and anxiety when our grandchildren (if we’re so lucky to see that happen) ask us about it, as history books will definitely have 2020 marked! This year is going to go down as one of the worst years ever in modern history. It’s already the pain in our asses that we swore it wouldn’t be. I know I was one of those people who just knew this year was going to be golden! I just knew it was going to be incredible and it did kind of start off that way. But boy, this plot twist sure did smack me right in the gullet!
In all honesty, I would like to think that it could’ve been much worse than this, but with a horrible virus that had the world in a chokehold (and if I’m being honest it still kind of does, but not so much the world at the moment, just the U.S. because we’re not a community-minded country for some reason even though it says so in our country’s name ‘United’…), it’s hard to see the forest for the trees. If I said that right.
Talking about everything that’s transpired and things that are still taking place with friends, we laughed about how this year is so much like a book– that disastrous, pre-apocalyptic dystopian book that you’re just so taken aback by that you say, “That could never happen, thank God!” Until…
Everything that has taken shape feels so out of space and time. Almost as if we’re literally in a movie and we’re just being written; every move we make, every line we say, who we are inside. It all just doesn’t seem like something we’d ever imagine happening in our time. Well, not to this degree, but it’s just not an event we could have thought of. Not like this.
Then again, I could just be overthinking it.
I will admit, this time has been plenty good for being with my family, spending much more time with my child, and reading and writing as much as I can. I still have quite a bit to be thankful for. It’s been a trying time, and we need some comfort, some reassurance that things are going to get better. I think we have to find that within ourselves at this time because 2020 is truly showing her a** and is not showing any signs of stopping.
2020 is more than halfway done. I can say the same of my third book “The Sorceress” that I am swimming through. More like wading, but it’s coming along. I put the pause on it before this year and had planned to have it done by a decent time until the hammer was brought down. But even so, it’s still no excuse for me. Except it is *smile*.
As we approach the end of 2020, I’m sure we all feel like 2021 is going to be so much better, and here’s hoping because we all said and thought the same of 2020. And look how it did us. Beat us bad! However, let’s take our resilience, take what lesson we can from it, and move into these upcoming latter months of this year with bravery and…masks. And sanitizer.
