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5 Reasons To Be Hopeful in 2021
Things can only get better
2020 has been an ‘annus horribilis’ for many of us. A year with so many hopes and dreams has become one where we were thankful for our health and the safety of those around us.
Thankfully, the end of the year has come with good news. The rollout of vaccinations programs means there is a way out of this crisis. We are approaching the light. It may be slow, it may be tortuous, but we are inching closer and closer.
2021 may not be the best year ever, but after experiencing what many of us will come to view as the worst year ever, it will feel much different from this year.
I’m hopeful that the new year will be a much better affair than what we’ve experienced during the past 12 months. Going forward into the rest of the decade, it should be the launchpad for years of enjoyment and social progress the likes of which we haven’t seen since the end of the Second World War.
Out of the ashes of disaster, hope springs eternal. Hope can be a dangerous thing, but it can also be the best of things, to paraphrase Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption. Without hope, life is reduced to a grind. An endless treadmill that never ceases to stop or churn out anything new.
