Reflecting on 2020
I know it’s late, but as this little blog didn’t launch until end of Feb it means I am a little behind the times. I wanted to still reflect on the year that was 2020 as it was such a crazy, unpredictable and sometimes scary time for us all and so I wanted to share with you my thoughts, feelings and a couple of things I found out about myself during 2020 just incase some of you are feeling the same.
A Global Pandemic, A Global Revolution and months and months of being in Lockdown. All in a single year. But what did this teach us? What have we discovered about ourselves as humans, as people, as a society? I wanted to share my thoughts with you all as I doubt I shall never live through such times ever again.
COVID 19 and the lockdown. Now, I always thought myself pretty happy in my own company, I have spent many winters in India (I will share many stories of my times in India with you all through out many blogs!) and it does mean I spend a lot of time on my own, in a country - whilst amazing and vibrant - is at the opposite end of the spectrum to ol’ Blighty. I love to read and paint both very solitary pursuits, and whilst I love a good party and I love to host and have friends and family over, I tend to be more than happy to have a night in on my own when Dave is away racing. That was until I was told I cannot have friends over whenever I like, I cannot drive to see family or go to the pubs and restaurants when I feel like it. It’s funny isn’t it, that when you are told you can’t have something you seem to crave and desire it more than anything. I have missed my friends, I have missed random messages to pop over for tea or shall we go for a swift vino this evening whilst the boys are racing late. I have missed popping to the spa when Dave is playing golf somewhere and walking around country fares and food festivals, trying cheese and gin till I can no longer consume anymore. I have completely. and utterly missed that social interaction and being able to hug my most favourite people whenever I damn well please. It’s not the materialistic parts of the life pre 2020 that I miss its the companionship, its the certainty that we had, it was the FREEDOM that we once took for granted, When this is all over I have decided to embrace being free to do as I please, to make the effort to see my friends as much as possible - not have the attitude of I can’t be bothered to get ready so i’m going to opt to stay in and watch a film. So as we move into 2021 we shall not forget 2020 in a hurry but we should not take spending time with loved one for granted.
I dare say many of us felt the same, and with the more positive news that Boris told us on Monday night we can begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel. By the end of summer it looks like life will resume as ‘normal’, but what will ‘normal’ be now? Will we ever go back to the days of pre 2020? So I sit and anticipate what will happen come summer, if we can resume our normal pursuits and see and hug and kiss those closest to us, let us all hope that this will be a reality. For all those small business, it’s not long now, you will be able to reopen those doors and return to your working life. I for one cannot wait to get my eyebrows tamed by my wonderful sister-in-law-to-be. Any readers in the Stockton area you MUST follow her page and book into to Blossom Brows and Beauty, she is a brow and lash queen.
So enough rambling now from me. Spring is now firmly on the way. As I write this I have the sun blaring in through the windows and doors and I think that adds a sense of positivity that we are over the worse. Lockdown in the bleak, cold and wet winter was less than ideal. But in roughly 3 weeks we will officially be in spring and and with that comes an optimism.
See you all next week.
Maisie
XoXo