2021: The Year of the Do-Better, not the Do-Over
I‘ll be riding all 365 days of 2021 like jockey on horse trying to win the Kentucky Derby—and you should, too.
Pity that time moves in only one direction. There are many moments in my life I wish I could relive, but with the knowledge I have now. Exhibit A: my first term in college and the five-hour Beginning French class which met every day at 8:00 a.m. Because I had several years of French under my belt before college, the elective was supposed to be an easy A. But when registering for the class I didn’t take into consideration that I lived on the vampire sleep schedule—turning in around 3:00 a.m., and up at 9:00 a.m. The class wound up being a five-hour F. What can I say? Living the wild life and partying kinda got in the way.
2020 stole, killed, and destroyed so much for so many, and left utter devastation in its wake. For many of us, Covid’s exacerbating circumstances far exceeded our control, let alone our grasp. If you’re like me, you tried to make sense of it all, remain focused and productive; but even still . . . there was the feeling that I should have done more. Hopefully, others might say I was better than I hoped and not as bad as I thought. Reality might disagree.
