The Year That Came Next
The Year That Came Next 2020 was the year that the world came to a stop. It was a time when we all paused, and experienced a collective eery silence. We all experienced uncertainty, pain, fear, apathy, hope, and cycles of disappointment mixed with despair. We as a whole felt a deeper form of exhaustion even as we were forced to look at ourselves deeper at more thoroughly than we perhaps ever had. We saw the flaws in our way of life, both on a broad sense, as well as within our personal spheres. We debated them, simmered in them, and most of all, we waited. We waited to find out what was next. Would we reboot as before, as though nothing happened? What of these thoughts and reflections and revelations we'd gained? For many of us, the exhaustion persists. We now rectify the things we know with things we know to want, against the demands of a world that's desperately struggling to piece itself back together - in some ways fighting against the inevitable chang
