Most of you must be thinking, how can you have complicated feelings for 2020? We all have only one feeling.. WE HATE IT! Yeah, well I feel that way now. But a month ago.. I was so happy with this work from home, mind you not the pandemic that I did so many things at once. I learnt how to cook, I started reading novels again- I finished three of them and started a fourth!, I decided to take up a course online which obviously went to hell, I started interacting more with people on calls and on social media, I even started video calling people which if you knew me is way too much. Then slowly the spirit decreased. I wanted to go out meet people, go on trips, eat at restaurants, go back to office to work! I was so done with the whole work from home. I started hating 2020. Do you really think we will be able to see 2021? I was giving it some serious thought.
But, did you ever think how different it is going to be once we step out into the outside world? Every trip you take, you will try to enjoy it to your fullest. Every friend, relative, coworker you meet, you will be happy just being able to see them physically and not through a virtual box. Every restaurant you visit, the food you taste will take you to new levels, you will be physically active again, taking your health seriously. You will look back and see all the times you spent with your parents, loved ones, roommates trapped inside your house was one hell of an escape room experience with no escape, but has brought you all a lot closer. And I think that is beautiful. I know it's just a matter of time before we all go out into the world again and it's a lot late to give this cheerful speech about getting through the pandemic. But from this point, you will involuntarily never take anything you do for granted. Well, at least not for a year or 2. From small things like commuting to office for work to big things like making life changing decisions, you are gonna rejoice every moment of it. I know I will.
That is all 2020 taught me. That is why it is a complicated year.
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