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Is 2021 the Year To Revive Your Dreams?
I began this year very excited and happy celebrating the end of the previous year which for me had been so hard, and overwhelming. The fact that I also celebrate my birthday on new years made it even more exciting. I felt like I was turning over a new leaf! Part of me was so hopeful and so energetic about planning for and finally starting to accomplish some of my goals, which unfortunately I had not achieved in 2020.
It has been fifteen days into 2021, and like many others I have been following the news as well as the current happenings. I have found myself contemplating many times whether this year is going to be any different from last year. See, the end of last year was filled with a lot of hope and good news: from the roll-out of the covid vaccine, to the beginning of school resumption for most countries(Students in my home country Kenya had been forced to stay at home for 9 months last year, so it was definitely a relief that they were resuming), to the winning of the presidency by Joe Biden after a long four years. All this events showed that potentially 2021, would be the year when most of us get to revive our dreams and start accomplishing them. 2021, would be the year we get to have some normalcy or at least have better lives.
So fifteen days later, and unfortunately the happenings of these previous two weeks seem to suggest otherwise. At…
