Perhaps 2020 WILL be a Visionary Year
Lately I have been taking time to go on walks as a break in my day. I have been using this time to listen to a backlog of podcasts that I had saved up to listen to when I had some time...well that time seems to have arrived. There were a number from earlier this year that I was listening to one day and there was a theme that really struck me - how much hope we pinned on the year 2020 at the start of the new year.
I remember all of the memes and rants about how crummy 2019 had been for so many people and we all seemed to really be just getting through the year towards the end, yearning for this fresh start that the new year, and new decade were sure to bring. And 2020 did start off well for many, so it seemed. Perhaps it was just the relief of being able to start fresh that was putting people in a more positive mindset.
And then came coronavirus. And with that all of our hopes and plans for the year started to fade. As news reports rolled out about the real seriousness of this situation, the numbers of newly diagnosed and deceased rose and the social impacts grew, there seemed to be a real sense of despair and a feeling that all of the hope that we had placed on this new year was wasted.
What I have started to realize is that perhaps this still IS a year that will be visionary for us. It certainly is going to be a year that will change us as a society and a world in ways that we would never ever have considered possible on January 1st. It is going to be a year that we never forget as a turning point in many of our lives and that will have lasting repercussions for generations that follow. It is going to be a year that also has introduced hardships and sorrow to many lives and has created challenges to be overcome.
Change needs to take place on many levels in our lives. The way we work, play and relate to each other have all needed to be evaluated and adjusted and will slowly revert to a modified version of what we used to do, but will likely never be the same.
This change does not need to be negative. Already I am seeing so many examples of how our current situation has opened up the door for deeper connections that are being built through more genuine conversations fueled by a real need for authentic connection.
We have been given the time to look at how we were living our lives and see the places we were investing energy and attention that weren't providing positive outcomes or bringing us what we really were looking for. Ultimately I think our real work is in letting go of all that we had placed on 2020 and instead focusing on goals that are more representative of who we really are at our core and what we have discovered to be truly important to us.
I remember all of the memes and rants about how crummy 2019 had been for so many people and we all seemed to really be just getting through the year towards the end, yearning for this fresh start that the new year, and new decade were sure to bring. And 2020 did start off well for many, so it seemed. Perhaps it was just the relief of being able to start fresh that was putting people in a more positive mindset.
And then came coronavirus. And with that all of our hopes and plans for the year started to fade. As news reports rolled out about the real seriousness of this situation, the numbers of newly diagnosed and deceased rose and the social impacts grew, there seemed to be a real sense of despair and a feeling that all of the hope that we had placed on this new year was wasted.
What I have started to realize is that perhaps this still IS a year that will be visionary for us. It certainly is going to be a year that will change us as a society and a world in ways that we would never ever have considered possible on January 1st. It is going to be a year that we never forget as a turning point in many of our lives and that will have lasting repercussions for generations that follow. It is going to be a year that also has introduced hardships and sorrow to many lives and has created challenges to be overcome.
Change needs to take place on many levels in our lives. The way we work, play and relate to each other have all needed to be evaluated and adjusted and will slowly revert to a modified version of what we used to do, but will likely never be the same.
This change does not need to be negative. Already I am seeing so many examples of how our current situation has opened up the door for deeper connections that are being built through more genuine conversations fueled by a real need for authentic connection.
We have been given the time to look at how we were living our lives and see the places we were investing energy and attention that weren't providing positive outcomes or bringing us what we really were looking for. Ultimately I think our real work is in letting go of all that we had placed on 2020 and instead focusing on goals that are more representative of who we really are at our core and what we have discovered to be truly important to us.
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