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{"source_url": "https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk", "url": "https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/18106528.open-arms-excitement-future/?ref=rss", "title": "I open my arms with excitement for the future", "top_image": "https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/resources/images/10805440/", "meta_img": "https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/resources/images/10805440/", "images": ["https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/resources/images/sitelogo/?r=j8sRTFQd", "https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/resources/images/sitelogo/", "https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/resources/images/10805440/", "https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/resources/images/10805440.jpg?display=1&htype=0&type=responsive-gallery", "https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/resources/static/nile/img/bg-reply-right.png", "https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/resources/images/monogram/"], "movies": [], "text": "Megan Byrom is a student at Priestley College.\n\nHere, she shares her hopes for 2020\n\nIT is 2019, I am 18 years old and I can be almost certain that the next decade, the 2020s, will be an important one.\n\nIt is a significant decade for me, and many other people my age.\n\nI think of my 20s with words emblazoned onto the back of my mind: University, career, marriage, kids, house etc, a Star Wars-esque scroll rolling upwards into my mind and getting stuck there, as I try to unpick just how serious it all sounds.\n\nBut 2020, and the next year ahead is my priority.\n\nMy university application is done, but in 2020 I\u2019ll discover where I end up.\n\nWe\u2019re all turning 18.\n\nSome of us will be moving away, and stepping into that unknown void that I know as the world outside of Warrington.\n\nBut the next decade does not just mark me finally having to act like an adult.\n\nIt is an important one for the world, for our town and for Britain as a whole.\n\nI look at the legacy of the 2010s and I am reminded of deep divisions that have been scoured across this nation.\n\nIt seems that I am not the only one who has some growing up to do, and I hope that politics can come of age and act with a maturity, tolerance, and wisdom that people always say comes with time.\n\nThere seems to be a clash of possibilities as I go into the next decade.\n\nOn one hand, is that steady serious future hanging in the wings, and another are those rising issues braced and waiting to see who can get to me first.\n\nBut it seems that the next ten years will be vital in preserving that balance that has always kept chaos at bay and will now have to stop sea levels rising, our economy collapsing and keep my future secure.\n\nThere is a convergence of tensions that make the future appear more vulnerable than ever.\n\nAnd whilst it is important, I don\u2019t know what I am expecting.\n\nPerhaps we\u2019ll have total anarchy or maybe we\u2019ll be underwater, but I open my arms to the new decade, and introduce myself to this stranger, that perhaps naively, I\u2019m excited to meet.", "keywords": [], "meta_keywords": [""], "tags": [], "authors": ["Megan Byrom"], "publish_date": "Wed Jan 1 06:00:00 2020", "summary": "", "article_html": "", "meta_description": "Megan Byrom is a student at Priestley College.", "meta_lang": "en", "meta_favicon": "/resources/images/4481773/", "meta_data": {"viewport": "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no", "OMG-Verify-V1": "4389-366acdfc-5224-4c07-bb70-f74d8fbfc2db", "og": {"url": "https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/18106528.open-arms-excitement-future/", "site_name": "Warrington Guardian", "image": {"identifier": "https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/resources/images/10805440/", "width": 674, "height": 847}, "title": "I open my arms with excitement for the future - my wish for 2020 and beyond", "type": "website", "name": "I open my arms with excitement for the future - my wish for 2020 and beyond", "description": "Megan Byrom is a student at Priestley College."}, "twitter": {"image": {"src": "https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/resources/images/10805440/"}, "card": "summary_large_image", "title": "I open my arms with excitement for the future - my wish for 2020 and beyond", "description": "Megan Byrom is a student at Priestley College."}, "fb": {"app_id": 106111812802671, "pages": 831229246999622}, "medium": "news", "title": "I open my arms with excitement for the future - my wish for 2020 and beyond", "description": "Megan Byrom is a student at Priestley College."}, "canonical_link": "https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/18106528.open-arms-excitement-future/"} |
