Seems somewhat of an oxymoron at first, but when I thought about it for days I found that the worst things that happened in 2020, whether its politics, global health & pandemic, the tremendous job losses and the loss of life & property and the general chaos around us, also made a lot of us stronger and a step closer to knowing ourselves a little more, a little better.
Prior articles:
- 12 Things I am Ready to Embrace by 2020 – written in Feb 2015
- Not the 2020 I Envisioned – written in May 2020 when the pandemic started to get serious in the US
- Challenges to Social Behavior – written in May 2020 when the social distancing is becoming the only way to survive the pandemic
Being locked up inside the house wasn’t the worst thing that happened – it was more painful and seriously disturbing to see how freedom is taken for entitlement by many in the country where the First Amendment Right is the nearest & dearest to every citizen and the envy of the rest of the world.
It hurt more to see how the education system in one of the richest country of the world that hosts some of the best universities in the world, while succeeded in providing academic courses to many completely failed to create socially compatible human beings. A country thats the foremost sponsor of everything science in the last century, went completely un-scientific while handling the pandemic. A lot of bad decisions on climate change in the past several years has jeopardized many global programs to assist a much slower climate deterioration.