One Year Later…
I honestly can’t believe we’re already in the middle of March. TBH, I can’t believe that a year ago today I was sent home to “test” my VPN connection for the upcoming “two week” quarantine that would require us to work from home. What a year it has been! So many ups and downs, firsts and lasts, tears, excitement, sadness, frustration. You name it, I’m sure we’ve all felt it.
2020 was a year for the books, literally. From now on History books will talk about 2020 in the same way we talk about 1918, 1941, and 2001 (for you readers who aren’t well versed in history, those were the years of the Spanish Flu, Pearl Harbor, and 9/11). There was a meme that went around last fall saying, “I’m tired of living through a chapter in our History books” and it couldn’t have been more accurate. 2020 will forever go down in history for several reasons: COVID pandemic, Trump/Biden-Harris election, etc. All those 2020 “hindsight” jokes don’t mean anything when you think of the bigger picture.
I can’t say 2020 was all bad; I was fortunate enough to be promoted and awarded my second GEM award (“Going the Extra Mile”). I also was able to spend so much time home and around my family that we truly may never have gotten had the pandemic not occurred. Again, not all this “family” time was great; but it wasn’t the worst ways to spend days. I have several friends who lost their jobs, and are only just recovering from that experience. Some still don’t have jobs! So, again, it wasn’t all good; but it also wasn’t all bad.
Enough of the past. We’re in 2021, rounding the end of the first quarter, and there is hope ahead. The COVID vaccine is being administered, restrictions are starting to loosen and disappear, Disneyland is reopening (YAY!), and the world is going to get back to some resemblance of normal (preferably by the end of the summer). I’m one of the lucky ones who has already received their first vaccine, the remainder of my family is in the process of getting the shots (my aunt, cousin, and sister already got them). This is the first step to getting to that place where we can say things are “normal”, or as close to it as you can be considering what we went through.
Is there anything you are looking forward to being able to do again, when we get to that resemblance of normal? I’m dying to go back to Disney, WITHOUT MASKS, and I’m ready to travel. I miss my best friend and god son, and although I went to Utah earlier this year; there’s so much more I want to do. I especially want to go back to New York. Who knew I’d miss it so much! It has always been my happy place, so I should have known, but I still took it for granted.
