With 2020 coming to an end, we find ourselves drawing up checklists of hopes for the future. I think it is safe to say, this year has been quite eventful to say the least. And through all the hardships it has brought, it has also given us the opportunity to press pause and reflect; to sit back from our fast-paced lives and think about not only where we want to go, but where we’ve been and appreciate the smaller things we once took for granted.
2020 for me was a year of beautiful mistakes and growth; I learned and I lived. People came, and people left. The world changed, and so did I.
But the bitter-sweetness of 2020 also brought many beautiful things. It brought closure, showing me the importance of knowing when to let go. It helped me appreciate the simple things in life, and helped me understand the beauty of timing. It helped me realize that my mother’s sayings held some amusing logic behind them, no matter how silly they sounded. It helped me learn that in order to have clarity in life, I have to first look within myself; as Carl Jung once said, “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
It taught me that nothing is for certain in this life, and that in a blink of an eye, we are swiftly spun off course- quite often onto uncharted waters.
Part of the beauty of life is not knowing and though we find ourselves loving the comfort and security a sense of order and routine brings, we live in an infinite universe- open to an endless amount of possibilities and as 2020 has taught us, nothing is truly predictable.