The Rest of 2020

I sit here on my cluttered desk writing one of many annual check-ins. It's April 20th and the first day of being 27 is nearly over. It too will pass, faster than I can bring myself to make peace with the fact that I can neither revisit the past nor fast-forward to the future... Though, I'd give anything to do either. Is there anyone who wouldn't?

That isn't to say I regret things as they are... No, I look at every year to be "the year" and every month is "the month", and of course no day goes by where I don't try progressing towards my goals. A few years ago I set out on this journey to find what drives me and I'm made bitter by the fact that I've not leapt into my passions as passionately as I'd hoped. I remember being on Google Flights with a one-way ticket to California... It was only a couple clicks away from being locked in, but it never got to that point. Reason convinced me to press the red "x" button that sat on top-right side of the window and the page closed in an instant. Two years later that window opened once more, only to meet the same old fate.

Today, that isn't even a possibility.

With the global economy halted, airplanes grounded and travel being restricted beyond belief, I find myself sitting in my room thinking that when the world opens up, so too will the opportunity to fly to the valley (Cali).

I'm not the only person faced with this dilemma. Graduating students, small businesses, and people who've been laid off are all in the same boat. And the question is, when the time does come, will we grab these so called opportunities as swiftly as we imagine? Will we even be prepared or will this moment of clarity last no longer than the shutdown itself?

Perhaps a better way to look at all this is to imagine that there is no better time than now, and no better place than here. As for opportunities, they are global. They hover around us at all times, albeit slowly changing forms. At worst, they become unrecognizable... never unavailable.

To the rest of 2020!