Have A Year!
So, our planet has made it around the sun, again.
I am sure that many of us sighed with relief when the clock hit 12:01 last night.
2020 was an awful year.
There was the COVID pandemic, raging forest fires, natural disasters and the man-child in the White House throwing what has to be the longest tantrum in recorded history.
But wait- 2021 is a brand spanking new year, filled with possibilities and resolutions to keep.
Ah yes, those pesky resolutions. What resolutions can one make after surviving the decade that was 2020.
Wasn’t 202 enough? Why torture ourselves with the annual rite of making resolutions. I understand that there is a strong desire in all of us to want the new year to be better than the previous year. We all want to be better and be improved people than we were last year. I get it. I am contemplating all the things I want to be different this year.
I would love to post to Medium more often. (I have been saying this for years)
I would love to lose 20 pounds this year. (I want to do this without giving up junk food — wish me luck!)
I want to commit to folding the laundry as soon as it is dry. (Is this actually possible?)
I want the Leafs to win the Stanley Cup. ( there is not a damn thing I can do about this, but you can’t fault me for trying)
There several things I can say I am going to do in 2021. The truth of the matter is that like most people, I won’t come close to accomplishing any of my “resolutions”. After the year we just survived, I am OK with not keeping my resolutions.
If I learned anything from 2020, it is to be thankful. Thankful for whatever I have to be thankful about.
I don’t think I need to burden myself with a list of things I want to change this year.
I think I will be thankful to get through a day.
I don’t want to pressure myself by trying to make 2021 the most amazing year ever. Being here this time next year will suffice.
I don’t want an amazing year or a fantastic year. I want to have a year.
A year of opportunities and challenges, and there will be challenges.
A year full of folded laundry.
A year that will have its share of tragedy and triumph.
A year that will provide several chances to figure out what happened and several more chances to learn that sometimes you will not figure out what happened, and that’s OK.
We have to deal with a lot every day.
I want to just “be” this year.
I want to have a year. Not a good year or a bad year. A year. A year that I accept what comes.
My hope for everyone is to have a year. Do with it what you can and amaze yourself by what you do.
Have a year, folks!
