How do you feel about 2020?

Good, bad or indifferent? How was it for you?

[ronin]

By any measure, 2020 has been a peculiar year. For most of us, probably the strangest of our lives.

On TV and Radio News the overwhelming narrative is that the majority of people have found 2020 harder, tougher, more stressful. Consequently I tend to bite my lip. But, truthfully, I have genuinely enjoyed 2020.

- I like a mix of going out and staying in. But I like that in 2020 there has been less pressure to go out

- when I have gone out, I like that public places have always been a lot less crowded

- between late March and late June it felt like a relief that there were almost no cars on the road

- back in the spring (I imagine because of the lack of cars) there seemed to be a lot more birdsong

- in general I feel that in 2020 I've experienced less pressure, fewer distractions, more calm and more productivity

I feel I can't share this with other people I talk to, because I'm concerned that they might have had a rotten year and someone else telling them how much they've enjoyed 2020 is really not going to help.

I wondered how others here have experienced this year?

[JorgeV]

Hello,

2020 is the worse year of the 21st century, but still better than what 2021 will be...

[tangor]

Wore out. Then again 2021 will be more of the same so skin has toughened up a bit and perhaps what's coming will be not so quite numbing. (sigh)

[engine]

I'd like to think that lessons in plain sight will be learnt by the examples we've all seen, but I suspect not.

[blend27]

Lost:
1. We lost 2 side mirrors on our Sedan and gained a nice scratchy scratchy dent on a front passenger door, 1 way way parking here.
2. A friend who needed a bypass re-placed in April, due to no avail of beds :(
3. A piece of lost Mind with a load of ambulances just zipping up and down.
4. 2, European - a month long outings, with family and school friends canceled.

P.S. What we lost this year is not numb, it will stay with me, and us, for a long time and I will mention this year events to all of Mine who are now Close, were are will be, later, hold on.
As geeks we refer to repositories of where our minds were. This is for a while will not be funny at all.

Gained:
1. Less than 1220 miles so far on a odometer on Sedan for 2020 year(nice car, older year).
2. 7 more species of Birds in the Garden, built 5 feeding stations, loved the view!
3. Learned how to Cook more, some long lasted hoot for for generations, according to significant others!
4. We did get together(virtually) as a town to learn how to help each other!

Bless Your Thingy!

[piatkow]

I must start with the caveat that I am retired so have not suffered financially.

The first (UK) lockdown in the spring was lovely. Good weather, quiet, low polution. I had some lovely country walks in the early morning.

Now I am just getting pessimistic about when anything will start again. Not helped by events as late as May 2021 already cancelled due to the uncertainty.

When restrictions finally start lifting I will be having a serious bit of time on the web to find out which of my favourite pubs, cafes and venues have survived.

[blend27]

What I wrote on Dec 12, 2020.?.... Lots have changed, lots...

The Spring and Garden are finally HERE in our neck of the woods!

The Calendar is sadly littered with dates that we would want to forget.

But still, it is Spring!

[lucy24]

I don't think computer geeks can be considered representative of the general population. Can work at home, or already do so? Check. Are perfectly content to spend hours or days without seeing, let alone interacting with, another human being? Check.

[JorgeV]

Hello,

I don't think computer geeks can be considered representative of the general population. Can work at home, or already do so? Check. Are perfectly content to spend hours or days without seeing, let alone interacting with, another human being? Check.

Sounds like Geeks will survive the present time :)

[RhinoFish]

Zing!
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[ronin]

One sentiment I've heard a lot about 2020 is along the lines of:

We've had 10 years' worth of evolution in 1 year.

I don't disagree with this, but, each time, I'm often left with the impression that the individual articulating this sentiment means we had 2020-2030 evolution in 2020.

I'd submit that we had 2010-2020 evolution in 2020.

Zoom was founded in 2011 and had to wait almost 10 years before it was suddenly "discovered".

Broadband and Skype were already widespread by 2004-05 - an entire decade and a half ago.

Given the will, the remote working trends we saw mushroom in 2020 could easily have been "becoming the norm" back in 2009-10.

Instead we had to wait a whole decade for everything to happen all at once.