As 2020 turns to 2021, do you plan to watch the ball drop (or some other symbolic moment)? Or do you plan to be asleep at midnight?
Share why if you wish.
Asking — and answering — life's interesting questions
As 2020 turns to 2021, do you plan to watch the ball drop (or some other symbolic moment)? Or do you plan to be asleep at midnight?
Share why if you wish.
Did you read more books this year than last? Or fewer? What subjects? Did the pandemic make a difference either way?
Share why if you wish.
Can you recognize the good things that happened to you in a bad year? Being grateful for what you have can save you from despair.
The year 2020 has been bad in a number of ways. Our natural world was devastated by disasters like wildfires or hurricanes. Racial unrest led to protests, which spawned riots. A contentious political season saw election results questioned, and as a result our very democracy trembled.
Oh yes, and a pandemic swept across the globe, infecting tens of millions and killing well over a million people worldwide. Reactions to this ravaged our economy and changed life as we know it.
And yet, even in the worst circumstances, good things happen. They may be small, or fleeting, or personal. But these good things happen, and recognizing the good things that occur can give us hope in a seemingly hopeless situation.
So at the end of the year, what are some of the good things that happened to you? It is likely that you can point out dozens of ways that your life has been impacted for the worse. But can you think of ways it has gotten better?
What is the best thing that happened to you in 2020?
Related questions: Are there unexpected benefits to what we are going through? What are you grateful for? What are you optimistic about? Why should we be hopeful?
As the classic head-scratcher goes, an egg can only be laid by a chicken, but a chicken must have hatched from an egg. Which came first?
What are other examples of cyclical paradoxes?
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From Beanie Babies to the Macarena, from a Slinky to Cabbage Patch Kids, there are fads all around us. Is there a fad that makes you scratch your head?
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