Is 2020 our 'BEST' Year ?

 Is 2020 our 'BEST' Year ?

💊Is 2020 [that's MMXX] our 'BEST' Year ?  Surely, the mob rule will prevail and everyone will be chasing me down the narrowest alley till I get cornered for what seems a silly statement.  BUT who will debate that the worst brings out the BEST of us and from us ?  I hope this nips in the bud any arguments about MMXX being the best.

Seriously, it's moot and academic to state in unison that factually, 2020 was not our best year ever BUT... What happens to our realizations to date ?  Would we have those realizations if 2020 was just another calendar to flip over to the next new year ?  I don't think so.  When did we realize the value of our family ?  When did we realize the value of our work ?  When did we realize the value of our health ?  When did we realize all these ?

This is what I've been harping all along.  Because of this long drawn pandemic, we got into all these realizations.  Realizations that were hitherto unknown.  Not until this Covid-19 literally pushed us to our cramped corners.  Only when we got thrown off under the bus did we realize all these.  Obviously there were flies in the ointments, with some couples [finally] parting ways, some employer-employee relationships finally ending with a full stop. But then again, those were part and parcel of all these bundled realizations in our lives.

I, for one, i've been giving my health a lip service for the longest time.  NOT UNTIL when I got floored by this pandemic.  Suddenly, my weekly rituals of unlimited soda paired with 'well oiled' french fries are a thing of the past.  Suddenly, my 'eat all you can' lunches are nothing but footnotes by now.  Suddenly, those sweet Cadbury bars remained forgotten in the fridges.  In one word, as this 2020 poster says, I feel I have been SAVED.  My health was SAVED.  It may have come a bit late but as the old cliche goes, better late than never.  

Friendships ?  I felt I was over there at the Red Sea when the waters parted because we all realized which friendships are indeed genuine enough to endure versus the farcical ones.  A tinge of emotions even became seemingly the icing on the cake when my wife's long lost friend finally reached out to her after years of gap.  In brief, that disconnect of many years instantly dissipated, by one's genuine effort.

What does this tell us ?  All of us have BIG ice cream sundaes to cheer those with whom we had a disconnect in the past.  Or even with others who either are down or may be needing help from us.    Being generous to the less fortunate is a lesson imparted on us all during this pandemic.  We may not be living the life of the Bezos and Jack Mas BUT there are just one too many less fortunate souls.  And it pains to know if some of the less fortunate could even be our relatives or our real and true friends.  Again, realizations where we need to draw a line when it came to being kept into a hook.  Lesson learnt ?  Time for us to dip into our coffers.  And if we need to dip deeply, helping others makes us better off rather being on the receiving end, right folks ?💛