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Post by SharksFan99 on Dec 20, 2020 20:37:58 GMT 10
I don't think any of us truly appreciate how transformative and historic this year has been. Many of us have lived through what will most likely be the most difficult year of our own personal lives, but also what will eventually be looked back on as the most historically significant year of the 21st Century. The number of events, and truly catastrophic ones at that, which have occurred this year is almost the stuff of fiction. It's incredible to think about.
There's just over a week left until the start of 2021, so I have been reflecting back on all of the things that have occurred this year. Kobe Bryant's death and the 2019-20 bushfire season honestly feel as though they were years ago, even the George Floyd protests feel distant from the present time. It's certainly the most turbulent year I have ever lived through.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2020 21:54:45 GMT 10
Agreed! I couldn’t have said it any better. Before 2020, I thought 2008 was the most changeful year of the 21st century. But now I say 2020 takes that spot. 2020 & 2008 r similar in the sense that they’re both transitional years 4 society. They’re both rat years according 2 Chinese astrology. 2020 should have its own history book about the copious amount of fuckery that occurred this year. 2020 was a long, hellish nightmare of a year (worse than 2016). I’m happy it’s almost over. I’m grateful 4 a few things from this year, but I’m ready 2 move on. 2020 was transitional 4 me personally as I began 2 cook 4 myself, use Zoom 4 school, work, business, got let go from my math lab tutor job as I’ll be transferring 2 university next semester from the community college I’ve attended since 2016. I say good riddance 2020 & bring on 2021 even though COVID will most likely still be a thing next year.
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Post by sman12 on Dec 20, 2020 21:56:44 GMT 10
As mostly terrible this year was in terms of current events, it does offer us a lot of insight and lessons moving forward, like being more vigilant of possible pandemics (for some countries like the U.S. sadly), rebuilding the relationship between police and minorities, climate change, and political discourse hopefully becoming less eroded. But I'll never forget where I was during this year. I'm even surprised as to how I managed to survive this hellscape, but here I am. EDIT: I created this little collage as a summary of what happened this year 
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Post by y2kbaby on Dec 21, 2020 3:18:20 GMT 10
We was all not expecting 2020 to be the way that it is. 2020 might the craziest(yet!) year since WWII ended. I hope 2021 gets better, but I will not be disappointed if its as bad as 2020.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2020 3:45:12 GMT 10
Life has gone on quite normally for me actually as the pandemic hasn't changed my lifestyle.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2020 6:55:57 GMT 10
I don't think any of us truly appreciate how transformative and historic this year has been. Many of us have lived through what will most likely be the most difficult year of our own personal lives, but also what will eventually be looked back on as the most historically significant year of the 21st Century. The number of events, and truly catastrophic ones at that, which have occurred this year is almost the stuff of fiction. It's incredible to think about. I sure do. 2019 is now as historic as looking at a 1929 photo from the jazz age. And I believe this is just the start of at least a few very difficult years for the U.S. at least. How long this crisis truly goes on is currently up in the air. Things could get better in 2021 if we could just had cooperation but unfortunately, the culture war between the white fundamentalist Christians and everyone else in the USA is currently at a boiling point, and right now, the fundamentalists are trying to start a civil war and do whatever they can to sabotage the country in the event Trump cannot remain in power. I'm seriously worried about what is going to happen on January 6, 2021, especially now that Trump is calling for martial law to retain power and is calling for his supporters to use violence. 300,000 dead Americans from Covid seem nothing more than collateral damage to the fundamentalist Christians in their "war" to take over the USA and impose their "traditional values." If 2020 is what "reclaiming America for Christ" looks like (and it is), nobody should question why someone might not want anything to do with it. There is also the Trump economic crisis, which I think will be with us most if not all of the 2020s, long after the pandemic is over. Trump has torpedoed the U.S. economy, perhaps irreversibly. It's very likely China soon becomes the dominant economic power in the world and the US Dollar loses it's reserve currency status. This may be more like Japan's 1990s collapse as opposed to the Great Depression, which the U.S. recovered strongly from after WWII. It's very possible that quality of life doesn't level out again until the mid 2030s and that the U.S. never again has as strong of an economy on the global stage as it did in the 2010s. 2008-12 was rough. I thought back then that was the worst economic crash I'd have to live through. People called it a once-per-century crash. What Donald Trump has inflicted on us is magnitudes of times worse. These are dark, dark times at all levels of society and areas of life. For my personal life, it really feels like the book was shut in March 2020. There is nothing that hasn't been ruined this year.
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