In the beginning of Two Thousand & Twenty, brought many individuals one of the saddest, and most painful memories. Unfortunate events rising without a bit of time to recover. Despairingly dismantling all they had ever knew or had grown to know. Abruptly distinguishing families into the once mindless worries into an ongoing stressor, that no matter what one did, they found it to be considerably hard to escape. In this year it brought on the crying weeps of heartaches, not a sole could avoid at the time of explosion. Society of political figures not acknowledging or fully being able to grasp, how quickly the world was changing.

In such a short time of disruption, this disruption being caused by an unknowingly named virus being formed without their knowledge and/or the knowledge of others. Everyone in the whole world coming up with different propaganda to rightfully cause reaction of a diplomacy. Justifying the situated instances that have led up to these unfortunate circumstances. Individuals making artificial sacrifices for their families, their selves, and whomever or whatever came their way. Most of the population losing their hard-earned royalties that they’ve sacrificed over the years to have it all thrown away from the misfortunes of the world. Parties having to completely give up their homes, because the health of another is more important then a place to lie their head at night. Mouths barely being fed, because families were losing their jobs, causing bills to rapidly pile up in ways they’ve never knew were possible. File cabinets filling up with more documentation than accounted for, and an exceedingly far greater number of caskets filling out cemeteries, causing tombstones to be on top of each other.

Although this year had many negativities, there is a wide selection of individuals who rose to the occasion. To not allow the worlds tragedies to outrun them entirely, with also listening profoundly to the initial rules and regulations. Still managing to keep a positive attitude, to overlook their true emotions. Challenging themselves to take on a new way of living, given that the world has changed so much in such a short time. While properly adapting to those changes in the world as well as the pristine changes in their own. Acknowledging their hobbies and what they were good at, by creatively remolding themselves. By also inventing themselves a better escape, by opening their eyes to the imagination they may have forgotten as children. Embracing the new, and the proclaimed findings they discovered through the struggling triumphs, that keep their battle grounded. A true escape created as way out of the insanities of the world, creatively made by the individuals that refused to fall after being badly pushed.

Throughout, there was a distilled silence which shadowed the world, it also without the intensive meaning. Not only did this century bring silence in city streets, but it brought out many colors that weren’t true in homes of what seemed to be strong structured. True colors filled out the lining of the paper masks some individuals were wearing. This causing their faulty unpurified face to fall into many pieces, scattered across the floor. Reputations being pulled, stretched, and sooner before later nothing but falsified imageries that had been painted by the most expensive artists but sold for free. Realizing that no matter how dazzling it may look from the outside doesn’t always mean rubies and diamonds on the inside.

Individuals buried a lot in that year; they buried their losses, their loved ones, their emotions, their sanity, but what sticks out profoundly high. Is the fact that this world buried the old to make room for new, we had to re-discover the values, the morals, the rules, the regulations, and we had to finally discover defeat. Defeat not by rulers who wear crowns, or by soldiers who wear dog tags but the defeat we have faced in each other. The true war in which the entire earth is fighting for is a chance to live, laugh, and grow. We’ll never stand any misfortunate events that transpire, if we don’t watch the war between us and the universe. Fully understanding as well as acknowledging that life will always throw us curve balls but depending on how high its thrown will depend if its catchable or not.

By: Kelsie Lynn Sciacca