Dear 2021
By: C S Bhambra
Tags: New Year, 2021, Letters, Thoughts, Request

Dear 2021

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Dear 2021,

You’re quickly approaching and I’m not sure if you’re aware, but you have a lot of fixing to do so I highly suggest you prepare! Your relative 2020 has been beyond unfair, they’ve not been great to humanity and it seems they just don’t care! With that being said, this isn’t a rant or complaint but rather a request, and although it’s my assumption, I’m sure many can attest.

When 2020 rolled in as usual many made resolutions/plans… Their intentions to improve their life, to make 2020 a better year, to become a better person, perhaps some have, yet that’s not the point here.

2020 has acted like a dictator dominating its violence over victims, putting humans in their ‘place’, your relative eluded us with hope then smashed it with disgrace. This shattered many dreams and threw away many people’s faith. It further divided people, forced us all into lockdowns, lots of people’s enemy Anxiety crept in their minds and happily sat down…

New restrictions tortured others with the inability to attend funerals of loved ones. That is grief doubled and a goodbye that was robbed.

2020 brought with it a clash of views, more protests and senseless killing, it plunged finances through the roof with hand-outs and panicked spending.

Of course you may wonder whether there were any good things it brought, well yes it did. It gave the environment less pollution, nature flourished, lots of animals worldwide were able to live more freely, people had far more time to reflect, to research, to adapt and look within. It showed people other methods to adapt their businesses/work and search for their life’s meaning.

I understand this life is a duality, there is light and darkness, love and hate, success and failure, health and illness… Yet I ask you to consider; what approach are you going to bring? And no, I don’t see you as a genie, where wishes suddenly come true, rather I see you as part of the Universe, so I’m here writing to you.

I ask you to look intensely at this world. Hear the earth’s cries, a difference, a burst of positivity is needed for it to thrive, it’s time for your people to live, not just survive.

You must’ve noticed the amount of fear, the loneliness and disbelief this year has conjured up, this energy has polluted so many minds and it’s an understatement to say we’re ‘fed up’!

I imagine there may be harsher regulations and restrictions as part of your methods, more lessons to learn, more social distancing until people are so separated, that they lose a sense of sociality yet find a sense of themselves. This will make us all eventually yearn for a brighter day, a day where people are free, a delete button on the darkness of this year, is it such an impossibility? Okay, a bit embellished I know, we need to remember these experiences in order to grow.

I know that you have Universal Laws that many ignore and misunderstand, yet I ask you to flood the earth with more joy, good health is that too much to fit into your plan?

I suspect you will not write back yet just show up as the clocks announce your entrance, but before you do, reconsider your methods before you give the world some sort of penalty sentence! You have plenty more days to get it right and I sincerely hope that you don’t disregard the much needed light.

Until then, we will count down, but we will also hope this 19th misery of darkness loses its crown.

See you soon,

C Bhambra