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Goodbye #Uncertainty

With each passing year, I get more contemplative at the holidays. It seems I woke up in January, blinked, and boom New Years’ Eve is on my doorstep. My year of dedicated #uncertainty lived up to the name I titled it. I rode the emotional roller coaster of news with everyone else.  From Covid, to social justice, political uprisings, and humanitarian issues, 2021 gave us a little bit of everything. I think I am tired of news, bad news, in particular. My words may express my exhaustion here, but for so many all this world uncertainty has taken its toll.  

I attribute some of these exhaustive feelings to the reasons why so many people are choosing to not work. Vaccination has arrived and working in the world with other people is not only possible, but necessary. Yet still some are choosing to not work. I would like to believe the reason people can make this choice is because they can afford to. While the flexibility of work is available to some, for others financial comfort is not real.

Everything we are seeing and not knowing has people in a state of anxiety that cannot be named. We may have entered 2021 with hope for so many things and we are leaving with a mental health crisis. Our internal struggles to hold ourselves together is real. If people are unsure of what is next, how can they decide to get vaccinated, send their kids to school, or go to work. These feelings are real for so many. My trend prediction for 2022 is healing.  I imagine every aspect of our personal and professional life will be touched with the hope to heal from trauma, with the regular mental health check in at work, with friends, family, and neighbors making sure we are okay. This is going to be necessary to move forward.

To wrap up 2021, there are not any perfect words- only wishes. May #uncertainty leave and healing prevail. May you have the strength of heart and mind to continue into 2022. To all my readers in the blog-o-sphere, I wish you all a happy, merry, festive season with all your wishes coming true and may you celebrate the season with those you love and cherish. Goodbye year of #uncertainty.

~Karen Cirincione

Email: kcirincione@gmail.com        

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