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What a GD Year: Lessons Learned

It’s nearing the end of the year and I’ve been seeing a lot of roundups of best album and tweets you may have missed, and it just feels like we’ve all made the collective decision to not make content about 2020 highlights, which I really appreciate. 2020 has been an exceedingly difficult year for the entire world, and the last thing people need is a celebration of fleeting moments that can never outweigh the depth of darkness of the year in its entirety.

I don’t need to go into detail about how awful this year has been on everyone emotionally, physically, mentally, but do know one thing. If you’re reading this, you almost made it through 2020. It is not a small feat. Everyone should be proud of themselves.

Though I hate recaps, this one is a bit more personal to me, because there were so many events that have forever changed the way I navigate and perceive this world. I learned a lot about myself and society’s capacity for change, which will only help inform my future, but it hasn’t been easy.

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tags: new beginnings, new year, 2021, 2020, bye gurl
Sunday 12.27.20
Posted by Christina Scarlett
 
It’s the start of a new year which means countless resolutions made in haste or thought out with scary meticulousness that will be broken (if they haven’t been already) by the slovenly, inexorable force I’d like to call routine. Ro…

It’s the start of a new year which means countless resolutions made in haste or thought out with scary meticulousness that will be broken (if they haven’t been already) by the slovenly, inexorable force I’d like to call routine. Routines suck. Ok, granted routines involving some kind of fortifying, healthy activity are perfectly fine, routines perpetuating habitual and effectual laziness are not ideal. These kinds of routines I feel are widely practiced and plainly, must be stopped. This city has all but eaten me alive with its sexy, seductive nightlife and exciting, eccentric people. I’ve been caught up in the lights and sounds and have forgotten to appreciate the serenity and beauty that oozes out of every liquor bottle-littered street corner. So, in the new year against all of what is inside of me I too am making a new year’s resolution. One I have constantly mentioned and pretended to enact (to the point of madness)- writing more. However, I must say in my defense, I have been writing more, just not for the interwebs. This particular resolution is to share more thoughts, ideas and rants about this sick sad world ;) we live in for whoever is bored enough to read it (I appreciate you). More to come! 

tags: nyc, writing, resolutions, new year
Friday 01.04.13
Posted by Christina Scarlett