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2020: What a year?!

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So it is over ten days into 2021, and I just realized I am yet to gather my thoughts about 2020. I guess everyone had a time of retrospection, throwbacks, and so many end-of-year shenanigans. But here I am on Jan 14th (12:23 am), trying so hard to end 2020 in my head with this note.  I screamed “Happy New Year!” and did every other conventional activity that comes with a new year, but I walked into the year nonchalantly. No. I actually slept into the new year. I could not risk taking the “new year, new me” path because I knew I would get lost.  But this is me screaming: “Fu*k you, 2020!” Returning to school with so much energy in Feb 2020 was my starter pack. I just wanted to smash all my goals – live, love, learn, explore, connect, grow, stay happy, and maintain good grades. But I ended up staying ten months in school doing one thing: living.  It was a game. Survival of the fittest, maybe. Each month displayed the power of their numbers in ascending order. As we counted down, we saw d