Narrowsburg
To the editor:
My thoughts on the passing of 2021
Try not to scroll for once. Try to pause and consider:
2021: Goodbye and Good Riddance?
It’s easy to blame …
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Narrowsburg
To the editor:
My thoughts on the passing of 2021
Try not to scroll for once. Try to pause and consider:
2021: Goodbye and Good Riddance?
It’s easy to blame 2021 and be quick to banish it to the ashes with our feelings of disgust, resentment, grief, disappointment and frustration. The pandemic alone and its overwhelmingly invasive effects on our lives has made people quick to trash the year and hope for a better one.
We have never been more divided, cantankerous, opinionated and furious.
So it must be the fault of that 12-month miasma, right?
Or could it be us? Have we unwittingly contributed to the very things we are so quick to revile?
“The fault Dear Brutus, lies not in the stars, but in ourselves.”
Karma is often interpreted as an individual phenomenon. But truth be told, groups, nations and even the entire world is subject to its forces.
In many ways we are reaping what we have sown. What have we done to deserve this misery you ask? The list is long.
Until we turn the keel of the things that are steering our humanity into the seas of despair, we are destined to sail into yet another year we will be quick to be rid of.
Life is for the living and for the learning.
In many respects, 2021 was the finest teacher. It held up a mirror and we didn’t like what we saw. Don’t blame the mirror.
We change the world one life at a time. Begin. Resolve to be a bit more thoughtful, a bit more patient, a bit less apt to accept what you are being told, a bit more compassionate, a bit more loving, a bit more health- minded and a bit more giving.
If more of us do some of these things, then perhaps 2022 will be different and viewed in hindsight as a year to be cherished in our collective memory and not one to be burned in effigy.
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