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Life Lessons From The Year 2020!!

We had finally reached the month of December of the year 2020, and as the month was about to get over, all of us were filled with great aspirations and desires for a better year- a year full of prosperity, a year that would fill us with better hopes of recovery from the virus, and as we pondered over these thoughts, I decided to do something special and ask my friends or people around of what were their life lessons or takeaways from that year.

 

I was really spellbound by the responses I got on the Question sticker that I had posted on Instagram account, and this truly showed the extent to which at least a portion if not the majority of our human race, didn’t approach the pandemic completely with a negative thought process. To start off with, the first response I got from one of my friends was that the year 2020 had taught him the need to be patient so that you can gain the love of others and your efforts are appreciated. Indeed, I would agree that this year 2020 has been a year of patience as we tried to get through the monotony of problems that we had to all undergo as a result of it. For me personally, there have been times when I really dreaded this lockdown, the fact that we had to all stay at home and couldn’t roam about, but I always tried my level best to calm myself down and really tell myself that we need to be patient so that we could continue with our existence. 


Another person  shared the life lesson he had gained this year, that one must never give up even though life hits him or her with everything it can, on the contrary we must stand bold and strong to face it. At times, we get so engrossed in the problems that we are currently encountering without being thankful for the great things that we have been blessed with and so the next person who responded to my question emphasized on the fact that the least we could think of doing is being thankful for our existence despite the problems that we might be encountering.


 Everything is here and now- a quote by Buddha, was another response I had got from a friend of mine who felt that it is just the present that we have control over, so we must focus on just the present and what is in our midst. We should relinquish our past and let go off the anxiety of what lies ahead in the future. This also happened to be a realization for me as well, as 2020 with the onslaught of the pandemic taught me that we have control only of what is in front of us. We can at the most plan for what could happen in the future, but we cannot know for certain whether it would happen the way we might have thought. Therefore it is better to focus just on just the present moment, as that is something we can definitely control or bring in our ambit. And finally, the last response I got from one of my cousins was that the year 2020 had taught us the need to slow down. In this so-called rat race to progress or development that we were running, we had lost ourselves entirely and so the year 2020 had taught us that we need to slow down, and introspect on ourselves or rather practice self-care. Interestingly, there had been a lot of talks on the subject of mental health which had become a major issue that a lot of people were concerned about.


All of these were some of the life lessons that my friends had gained from the year 2020 and this really went to show that no matter how bad or worse a circumstance, there is always a light at the far end of the tunnel. As Joshua J Marine once said- ‘Challenges are what makes life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful’. So through the thoughts expressed by my friends on the subject, I got to know their take as well as what they gained as life lesson from the year 2020!!!!

Comments

Anagha said…
Very well written. Such a beautiful take on a year that was close to a nightmare. Here's to lasting lessons. Blessings to you. Keep on keeping on.
Unknown said…
Superb insight Bryce.. Yes indeed it has taught us to be grateful to God for this life we have... Well captured emotions... Keep it up... Good luck and God bless ...
Alex said…
Very nice Bryce.. well said .. indeed we have learnt a lot and new ways to look at life and work as well. All the best.. Alex

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