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Goodbye 2021, Hello 2022
Dec. 31st, 2021 09:09 amSo, 2021 has come to a close. On a personal level, 2021 has been mostly good on my end. I got to go to an anime convention since I couldn't do so last year, I got moved to a new position at my job, I actually managed to finish a fan fic I've been working on for years (For now, at least), I got both COVID vaccines—booster included—and I managed to do so much more than I did last year. Of course, it wasn't all great. Two of my family members died this year, my grandmother and a great-uncle, and I came dangerously close to losing my dog Penny. She survived, thank goodness, but if she had died, so soon after losing my grandmother, I don't know what I'd do. But I'm forever thankful to the family and friends, real life and online, who supported me during those hard times and continue to do so now. I can't possibly convey how much your kindness means to me, and a simple thank you doesn't feel like enough.
On a worldwide level though, 2021 hasn't been much better than 2020 for most, and it got off to a pretty bad start. I mean, do I even need to talk about the capitol insurrection on January 6th and how utterly awful it is? There's also faltering supply chains and cargo ships being stuck at ports for whatever reason, chip shortages as a result, the mass withdrawal from Afghanistan and the people who've been left behind, and many other things that didn't go well in the grand scheme of things. It's been hard to not pay attention to all that's happened over the past two years, because COVID has affected everything that's been going on in our lives to an extent, big or small. And with the new Omicron variant on the warpath, the pandemic has no intention of stopping any time soon. With this being the case, it's highly likely that we'll just have to truck through 2022 doing what we did last year: Getting the vaccine, continuing to use masks, and practicing social distancing so we can at the very least lower the spread.
And honestly? I'm okay with this. As far as how 2021 affected me personally, even with the massive bumps in the road, I still feel 2021 was pretty good for me, and we can only hope that 2022 will be better. It might, or it might not, but we'll see.
On a worldwide level though, 2021 hasn't been much better than 2020 for most, and it got off to a pretty bad start. I mean, do I even need to talk about the capitol insurrection on January 6th and how utterly awful it is? There's also faltering supply chains and cargo ships being stuck at ports for whatever reason, chip shortages as a result, the mass withdrawal from Afghanistan and the people who've been left behind, and many other things that didn't go well in the grand scheme of things. It's been hard to not pay attention to all that's happened over the past two years, because COVID has affected everything that's been going on in our lives to an extent, big or small. And with the new Omicron variant on the warpath, the pandemic has no intention of stopping any time soon. With this being the case, it's highly likely that we'll just have to truck through 2022 doing what we did last year: Getting the vaccine, continuing to use masks, and practicing social distancing so we can at the very least lower the spread.
And honestly? I'm okay with this. As far as how 2021 affected me personally, even with the massive bumps in the road, I still feel 2021 was pretty good for me, and we can only hope that 2022 will be better. It might, or it might not, but we'll see.
