Here is my last thought for this year: among all the awful things that have happened and all the times we have strived to be positive because others ‘have it worse’, it is not only okay, but also necessary, to grieve the loss of 2020. Many of us, including myself, had plans and goals and dreams for 2020. I turned 30 in 2020 and had huge travel plans that seemed to evaporate overnight, including Costa Rica and Antarctica, and other things that had yet to be planned.
So on this last day of 2020, in its final hours, it is okay to grieve. To be sad. And to be just waiting for the seconds to pass by, all while putting our precarious hopes in this next year. I know I am.