A Review of 2020

 -The Year of Plot Twist- 

Today is the last day of 2020, in just a few hours we will put it in history book. Is it fun? Is it painful? Here is my review. This year supposed to be a golden year where millions of planning has been schedule on but with just one single blow – everything is scattered around. Just like that, it ironically pushing us to stop and to adapt – to survive. And it literally happens for everyone.

So, why this year is so hard tho? Kid, if you are from the future and you don’t quite follow, there is something called Covid-19 (it is a new kind of flu but a deadly one for many people). At first, we think it will be disappearing soon but in fact, until today we still surrounding by it – a whole year tho. Is it scary? Yes, scarier than the zombie in your favorite movie. You can identify zombie easily but not Covid-19. We can’t really do our everyday live as normal as before: Traveling freely, sitting with friends for hours, eating all the street food that you like or just simply comfortably making money. Yes, the area which affected the most is of course the economic side, many people lost their jobs because stay at home and performing physical distancing is the main theme. So you can imagine the stress level at this moment.

As for me with this Covid-19 effect, I encounter more roller coaster of emotions thru work and thru my close circle and it really is not easy to overcome. That’s why managing to stay sane until the end of the year is really an achievement itself - and by that I realize that I need to work harder to fix all the bad and foolish move that I make so far. This year is simply the year of reflection - to review things and to be thankful which sometimes rarely remembered. 

2020 has teaching us to not rush but to work efficiently in a more creative way – it let us to experience a new style of getting connected despite all the limited space that we have. It let us be the best in the worst situation. So even though we are crawling this year, we learn a bunch of stuff on point.

On the other side, Covid-19 also giving our earth to heal a little. 2 years ago, seeing a blue sky in Jakarta is hard but now for the past 2 weeks that I’ve been here – almost every day I can see it. The pollution is decrease and many people start to learn gardening – giving us more oxygen. Many people also start to live life healthier by exercising often, eating healthy food, having times for hobbies, improving their self to be better.

Anyway, as what I write in my previous Instagram post, I want to give a virtual hug for everyone who have been thru a lot this year. Congratulation for staying strong and not losing hope. You guys, we are the true survivors. This year perhaps the year which full of plot twist ever – bad and good – but with all of that, we have learned our lessons to fix and upgrade our self for better 2021. Hopefully. 

Happy New Year Guys. XOXO.

-Fin-