2020 was a crummy year, that's for sure. March felt like an entire millennium, and we wondered if that month would ever be over. From there, it seemed like time flew past, and before we knew it, December was coming to an end. Yet at the same time, we look back at the year, and it seems like an eternity since it started. It feels like we've been in the age of masks forever, in the age of arguments and dissent, the age of no toilet paper in the stores because it's out of stock.
I've been telling people that years from now, students will be studying this in history classes. 2020 will probably have its own chapter to itself, because so much happened. It'll be long descriptions of sickness and quarantine, hoarding and riots, anger and division. The chapter ought to be called '2020 Stunk'. Or perhaps 'Year of Hell'. It's an accurate description, and a 'Star Trek' reference, all rolled into one.
Honestly, if I could just throw this year in the trash, delete it, erase it from existence, that would be great. I actually saw a GIF the other day, showing a guy throwing 2020 in the garbage. It's a beautiful GIF, the most wonderfully relatable thing. It is a masterpiece.
Last year was just... ugh. It started a fast downhill slope. Just when I thought I knew crummy moods and crummy mental health, 2020 yelled, "Did someone say 'DEPRESSION'???" and did a power slide entrance and full musical number. And that musical number was a really ominous and scary tune, with vocal accompaniments of screaming and wailing from the underworld. If the 21st century was an album, then 2020 would be like track 4 of Adam Young's 'Omaha Beach'. (Really, just listen to it. The sound of it is pretty much self-explanatory.)
With the year being what it was (Frodo's journey through Mordor), my motivation has been rather low. And from what I've seen, a lot of other people feel the same way. My general mood has been bad, too. Same with everyone else. Everyone is tired of the insanity of 2020, the awfulness and chaos and misery.
Luckily, 2020 does have an end. A new year, a new start. We can shake off the horrors of 2020, and...
Aw man. Well, I was hoping.
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