thereâs 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!Â
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.
i know the new year wonât magically erase everything bad happening in the world but i hope 2021 is kinder to you all and that it brings brighter moments and healingÂ
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I hope 2021 treats you kindly and that you are kind to yourself in return
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 thatâs happened to us, we need a moment to say, âthatâs done, weâre done with it, itâs overâ 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 âyou know itâs not just 2020 and that the events of this year are actually the result of decades and 2021 wonât be magically betterâ
Ahhh yes, strawman naysayer in my head and on my fb tl, I see you are very intelligent. But pal, itâs 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 canât even be together with the people we love, we put on our silly little party hats on december 31st, say âgood riddence 2020 you absolute trash bastardâ and perform this silly little ritual of giving a big ol cheers to whatever fresh new hell is coming next