To be sad 2020 is over

[Thewinterofdiscontent]

To me, 2020 was the one random year in a years of progressively twatty years to give to give us freedom.
The year public health overtook profit. The year free giving and raising money became the norm. The year people who were just about money couldn’t be knobs about it,
The year we had to think about what we grow, produce and make and how this effects others.

I’m dreading 2021 frankly. It’s going to be a nasty whiney year of recriminations.

New Year's Resolution enough of MN Covid Forum! Happy New Year everyone see you on the other side.

@Fuckingcrustybread i suggest that you look up "going against the grain " in a dictionary and then go fuck yourself as you clearly can't understand English and can't accept that for those of us who suffer every day of every year that this year has been easyer than normal and have a bit of compassion for others but no you only think of yourself and your own circumstances and fuck everyone else right, nothing new here just more didablist bs from arseholes like you

Oh and @Yellownotblue thanks that's exactly what I meant

@Cabinfever10 I'd use that phrase in the way you did as well.

cabinfever I’d use that phrase like that too, because it’s one of the correct ways in which to use it. It’s used correctly like that all the time on Mumsnet.

@WhatWouldPhyllisCraneDo & @akerman I agree but it would seem that @Fuckingcrustybread just wants to bitch at anyone who points out that for people who struggle with "normal life" social distanced life is easier and that maybe they should look at themselves and how they interact with others and what they expect from us and that maybe just maybe they should change themselves

2020 was an absolute bucket of fuck.

Meh, nothing's really any different tbh. You just substitute a 1 for a 0 when writing the date.

And I won't lie, I enjoyed my seven weeks of furlough. I'd happily take a few more weeks as I've got a PS5 on the way.

With the exception of one or two high points, 2020 has been the most monumentally shit year that I can remember, and not solely down to Covid 19, although that certainly hasn't helped at all.

Tonight I said good riddance to it.

I'm hoping for an improvement during 2021, but not holding my breath. It will still be a long and rocky road.

OP there may be a few things that raised a smile in 2020 but they were massively outweighed by the bad. There are over 70,000 people whose families and friends are mourning their death, and that's just in the UK.

2021 will have a lot of bad things, but I cannot think as many as 2020.

OP, you sound like a drunk, clueless teenager.

I don’t know where you’ve been spending 2020, but it’s not the same as the rest of us.

There are over 70,000 people whose families and friends are mourning their death, and that's just in the UK.

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Surely this is all that needs to be said?

I think your definition of freedom is different from the majority’s op. For most of us, it’s not being effectively shut in your home unable to see your friends and family,

This is the year the Tory party was able to tell us all the NHS can't cope, it's getting overwhelmed, next stop, full privatisation.

It's the year they convinced us that we don't need a lot of local services, we can come together as a community and pull funding for all those pesky services that improve people's lives

On the plus side we now have the biggest freedom of all in 2021: our sovereignty.

^^ HA HA HA to sovereignty!

I assume you’re joking as we always had that.

We’ve just fucked our own economy and our children’s chances to travel and study abroad for no reason.

People are being harsh here..whilst I'm the first to say I cannot stand these restrictions and hate what the government has done and their mishandling for some people this year has been a breather. People in high pressure jobs unable to see their family for all but a fleeting weekend have found the simple pleasures in life so I do get what the op is saying.

I also actually enjoyed some of my furlough when we started to get nice weather etc, I'll never ever get that time with my ds again.

@FinallyFluid

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@Agoodbriskwalk

I think it's ok to recognise that this year HAS brought some positives, while being glad it's over.

Mine is that homeworking has become so normalised. I hope we never again see worker bees traipsing into soulless buildings just to sit at desks in the same room.

That might be a positive for some people but not for me and many others. Please explain what's positive about cramming a desk in my living room between the dining table and the sideboard and facing the wall all day? Not being able to switch off as my work shit is permanently there? DH feeling he can't sit in his own living room as he doesn't want to disturb me. If this is now normal they can shove it, I'll be leaving. I can't do it any more.

I think some people are being very unfair to the OP here. For some of us 2020 has dealt us the worst hand possible (I lost my job and both parents), for others, such as my best friend, it has been a good year. She became a GM for the first time, and after being made redundant, spent more time on her paintings and has sold a few online which is something she has always wanted to do. I don't begrudge her happiness and she doesn't dismiss my pain.

The OP clearly states that this is her take on 2020, there is no need to be rude and unpleasant just because it's not yours.

2021 is not going to be some magic end to this either. No one has learned, No one has grown. Some have died and more will. Glad you enjoyed 2020 but I don't think humanity has grown anything other than more hostile and angry to each other.

im glad to see the back of 2020 two holidays we had to cancel no motorbike scene or rallies, three gigs we couldnt go to met my first great grandson in february at two weeks old havent been able to see him since , have spent as much time at home with no where to go furloughed ( am lucky to have held onto my job by the skin of my teeth even though 80% wages ) as i have spent at work very few positives in last year just hoping we all get back to something like normal this year