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Reflections of #Vision2020

The other day I was busy in the kitchen preparing a dish for Christmas Eve diner. I was making stuffing I usually make for Thanksgiving Day. At special request, I was asked to make the stuffing and happily obliged even though I considered the food Thanksgiving food and not Christmas food. This year things were different for Thanksgiving this year and I didn’t have the opportunity to cook the normal dinner. There was nothing wrong with making the stuffing for Christmas. It tasted just as delicious. My holiday feasts were different, a little topsy-turvy compared to years past. They were not bad, just different. In reflection, this is how the entire 2020 was, different and a little topsy-turvy.

My reflection brought me back to thinking about how the spirit of #Vision2020 can be kept alive when so much has gone topsy-turvy or has just gone away. I am certainly not alone in my thoughts. I am one of many who has questioned absolutely everything.  At the close of 2019, the world everyone knew to be real no longer exists. We now live differently. We look at people and things differently. We question if what was thought to be true was really true.

This questioning about life, about everything is so important for achieving the vision you want. Maybe 2020 is not a year, but a decade? Maybe #Vision2020 is not a period in time, but a new way of life.  Since we have lived through a global pandemic we can see how interconnected everyone really is to one another. We can see how one person can take a virus and make it spread. We understand how it is not just the illness, but the chaos it brings to our personal life and society as a whole and how something that cannot be seen can literally stop everything in the moment.

The year 2020 has made us understand how we interact with each other on a bigger level. The year 2020 has not caused the issues with racial justice and equality, but rather highlighted the importance. The year demonstrated the ideas and concepts in our heads of what is real about people, about life, is just that – in our heads. All this questioning, awakening, thought, solitude, social distancing, values questioning can only make 2021 and beyond better.

How do we achieve our #Vision2020 when so much is unknown? The truth is not one person has all the answers and ultimately what is true for one, is not true for everyone. This is the lesson of 2020. Some of us may not have achieved our #Vision2020, but we can let it live in our spirits for the next part of life’s journey.

In the year 2020, we ultimately learned. We learned to adapt, be flexible, and to truly understand what we value as an individual and as a society. This year we have learned how much power people have to create and destroy, to come together, and to be apart. This year has been one of contradictions of so many, mixed messages, and upside down sideways days and weeks.  We as people have been learned so much. What we have learned is we need to achieve #Vision2020 in the future by blazing our own authentic and true path and reminding ourselves we can only go forward.

~Karen Cirincione

Email: kcirincione@gmail.com        

Linked In: www.linkedin.com/in/karenjcirincione

Twitter: @kcirincione 

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