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Welcome to the future! If you’ve dragged yourself through A.D. 2020 and just wanted to move onto the next year, congratulations! Here we are! 2021 — the future. This is what we wanted, right?
The way I’m looking at it, one of two things is going to happen as we make our way through “’21”.
Either things are going to be way better, relatively speaking, than they were in 2020, or things are going to reach new levels of 2020-ness, and instead of saying things are “so 2020,” we’ll be saying things are “so 2020s”.
How about that?
We could have an entire decade like the year we just had. Instead of the “Roaring 20s,” we’d have the “Abhorring 20s”?Be careful what we wish for
There’s a good chance things won’t feel all that different as we turn the pages on the calendar.
We may have put all our hopes in changing “0” to “1” and thinking everything would get better instantly.
But, what if they don’t?
Do we chalk everything up to being a “2021 thing” and start clamoring for 2022 to get here?
I hope not. That would really make for a drag of a year.
Even if things aren’t back to the level of normal we’d like to see them at, we are prepared to handle some of these challenges now.
It could be that the entire year of 2020 was a vaccine, prepping us for what’s to come . . .
The pessimist in me is also speaking up and saying, “Things could be worse in 2021 than they were in 2020.”
Let’s hope not, but things would have to get better eventually, right?
Either way, we’ve moved on from 2020. For whatever it’s worth, that year whose numbers were uttered so many times to voice disgust, frustration, annoyance, and anger is over.
It’s time to move away and move onto whatever is next.
Of course, if we just dismiss 2020 as a bad year, we ignore all the good that happened during it.
I bet you can think of at least one reason why 2020 was pretty awesome and you wouldn’t want to trade it for anything.
Predictions for 2021
At the start of a new year, 12 months seems like a long time.
It’s fun to think about what will happen, what changes will occur, and where we will be the next time we hang a new calendar on the wall.
That “long time” seems so fast when the next December 31 rolls around though.
Then again, 2020 feels like two years in some ways because of how different things are compared to where we were 12 months ago.
But, here we are, the future.
The outside world may not resemble a scene from The Jetsons, but whatever is next for all of us, we’re about to experience it all together.
Just for fun, here are some predictions for 2021.
These are solely for entertainment purposes, and we’ll all check back here next year at this time and see how I did.
1. The Green Bay Packers will fall short of a Super Bowl run in a very heartbreaking fashion — like “4th and 26th”-esque.
2. A new social media platform will burst onto the scene and give Facebook a run for its money in popularity.
3. A successful musical act from the past, long since broken up and all but given up on, will surprisingly reunite to positive reviews and massive attention.
4. Robots. Something with robots.
5. I’ll win the lottery.
I may buy you all cookies if I am correct on all of these.
Let’s see how 2021 goes.
It will be memorable and significant in its own way, no matter what it looks like.
May you all have a happy and blessed new year!