there’s a lot of memes going around celebrating the wrong year. for anyone who experiences clinical dissociation or difficulty connecting with reality, seeing that can be very distressing. please remember to tag #unreality for your dissociative followers!
for anyone who is unsure what year it is: 2020 has ended and it has just turned 2021. any post/meme that says a different year is not being literal.
As we come upon the final weeks of the year, we will probably all start seeing posts like fic and art and accomplishment round ups and it’s wonderful to see what everyone has done this year. But I want to say to folks who feel that they didn’t do as much as they wanted to, 2020 sucked and getting to the end of the year is the biggest fucking accomplishment.
I’M GOING TO KICK 2021′S ASS NO MATTER WHAT IT IS BRINGING FOR US
terrible years really make you understand the point of a new year. i know nothing much will have changed between dec 31 and jan 1, but we need to be able to partition off everything that’s happened to us, we need a moment to say, ‘that’s done, we’re done with it, it’s over’ and have a little hope that the future will be different. we need to be able to stop and take a breath and sing, in the middle of winter, and prepare ourselves for spring.
All the naysayers going “you know it’s not just 2020 and that the events of this year are actually the result of decades and 2021 won’t be magically better”
Ahhh yes, strawman naysayer in my head and on my fb tl, I see you are very intelligent. But pal, it’s absolutely not the point at all. Hope has nothing to do with logic. We need celebrations the most when there is seemingly nothing to celebrate, which is why, even when everything is dark and bleak and we can’t even be together with the people we love, we put on our silly little party hats on december 31st, say “good riddence 2020 you absolute trash bastard” and perform this silly little ritual of giving a big ol cheers to whatever fresh new hell is coming next
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