Your 2020 Resolutions Failed but It’s Okay
By: Alysha Thornton
Tags: Covid 19, New Year Resolution, Pandemic, Resolutions, Failure Is An Option

Failing your resolutions is not the end of the world…2020 tried to be.

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2020 has been one hell of a year and if any of you are like me, you failed your resolutions this year. As the end of the year approaches, you look back at all of the resolutions you set on January 1, 2020. Some of them may have turned out to be complete failures, but it is okay.

This year has been a rough year but you came out on the other side forever changed regardless of whether your resolutions were achieved or not.

2012 Was Supposed to Be the End

The rumour was that the world would end in 2012. Deep freezes, fires, earthquakes. According to many, 2012 should have been the year that the world ended. Not 2020. The world as we know it was not supposed to come to an end in 2020 but it did.

Before, you could go outside without wearing a mask. You could hug your loved ones close. You didn’t have to worry about a global pandemic.

Maybe 2012 wasn’t the end of the world, but 2020 sure feels like it is.

Failing in the Time of a Global Pandemic

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At the beginning of the year, COVID was just something that — to most of us — was just happening in another country. It wasn’t taken seriously. It could never come to North America.

Except COVID came and when it came, it was out for blood.

The world shut down like never before. Little did many of us realize in that first month that it was just the beginning.

This has been a year where priorities have vastly changed how you view the world around you. This means that those resolutions you first set may not be what you value now. The year 2020 has been a year where difficult decisions have been made.

Is a trip to the gym more important than holding a loved one again?

Should you travel and potentially spread a deadly virus?

Or should you make the decision to give up on the resolutions that would put others in danger?

Changing Resolutions to Fit the World

Maybe you like many others changed those resolutions. Instead of a workout at the gym every other day, you bought equipment and started working out a home. You made the decision to limit your contact with others. It may have made your resolution harder to accomplish. It may feel like a failure in a way. You said that you would go to the gym every other day but an outside force is stopping you from reaching your goals.

Failure is okay.

Failure in a year where the world is trying to kill you is okay.

Because you didn’t fail. You changed your priorities.

Don’t Get Me Started on the Murder Hornets

2020 has been a rough year. Your 2020 resolutions may have failed but you know what? It’s alright. You are still standing. Life will get better. Your resolutions only reflect where you are in life at the time of making them.

Resolutions are not stagnant. They are ever-changing. Each day will change how you tackle them. Just because you didn’t accomplish the things you set out to on January 1, 2020, doesn’t mean you have failed.

It means that you have survived a hard period in history.

You are a survivor of the year that wanted you dead…

But don’t get me started on the murder hornets.