Last night, talking with my partner, I found it pretty easy to throw shade at 2020 – shade for the pandemic, the loss of friends & family, furloughs & job losses, self-isolating, health worries, the death of my cat, my Nan getting ill… it felt like the list would never end & my pit of despair was just getting deeper & deeper.
Looking at my partner, rather than the sympathetic empathy I felt I deserved, I got killer side eye, a whale sized sigh & this list of her own:
Be thankful for our health, be thankful that you’re now in work & not furloughed, be thankful that we made it through together, that your Nan was out of hospital before Xmas, that our new kittens are loving destroying all our furniture, that your brother’s in remission & he can see his kids again – but more than anything, in the future, when you’re throwing shade at 2020 try to remember that’s the year your daughter was born beautiful & healthy & the year your Bowie loving little boy became an amazing big brother.
Gotta say, 2020 may have been many awful things but it was one the best years of my life.