2020 has been the longest year of my life. Wait a minute. It’s not 2020, it’s 2021! Okay, 2021 has been the longest year of my life, and it’s only August… This does not bode well.
Maybe the two years have just run together since COVID-19 and conspiracies seemed to have taken over the world. Whatever the reason, this has been the longest year and I am EXHAUSTED!
Not that this year has been entirely bad, I mean sure enough bad stuff has happened since March of 2020 to fill a few lifetimes.
In America alone we currently have 628,000 people who have died from COVID-19.
We’ve had the most contentious election in American history, where the losing candidate and his supporters, just can’t let it go.
We had an insurrection where thousands of people broke into the U.S. Capitol while Congress was certifying the election results in order to “stop the steal” and some of those people also had lists of congress people they wanted to harm. As of four days ago, 615 people have been charged in connection to the Capitol Insurrection.
We’ve had numerous black people killed by police officers and protests in response.
Crimes against Asians are on the rise because a certain group of people continue to refer to COVID-19 in a derogatory way towards one ethnic group.
I could go on, but I’m too tired.
My life has also been challenging during this time, growth usually is difficult, but things are good and moving in a positive direction.
I’m just so utterly and completely exhausted.
I sat down the other day after work to take a 23 minute break and watch one old episode of The Nanny before going to pick up my kid from football. I didn’t even make it past the theme song before I was taking a trip to dreamland.
Some days I’m so tired that a simple change in plans reduces me to tears because I can’t handle anymore.
I’ve taken time away, time off, time to veg in front of the TV, but there’s always more to do, another kid to pick up, another lesson to plan, another meal to cook, another dish to wash and while I’m off relaxing, that stuff is piling up, making more work for me later.
I just want to sleep while everything else still magically gets done. Where’s my Harry Potter wand?
Any one else exhausted?
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