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7 Ways I Said Goodbye to 2020
Practical exercises to say goodbye 2020 and hello 2021
I ran into a friend recently who owns a liquor store. I figured he was having a pretty good year since alcohol is one of the pandemic growth industries. It ranks up there with toilet paper. Basic needs and all. Turns out we have our priorities when it comes to shutdowns.
“How are you?” I asked.
“I’m doing really well,” he said. “But I feel guilty my business is taking off while many people are suffering.”
I get why he feels guilty.
Some have prospered or maintained emotionally, physically, and financially this year.
And others have been completely totaled.
We have all experienced a different relationship with 2020.
It has been a year of extremes and suffering. A year of stress, confusion, and uncertainly. A year in which hardly any two people have experienced the same thing.
How do we say farewell to 2020?
This isn’t the typical roll of a calendar month followed by a numerical change. It’s a year unlike any we have ever experienced.
