I feel as though the theme of this year is looking back on things with clarity.
- It happens to be the year 2020, and people are obsessed with the slogan about hindsight.
I get it, it’s extremely fitting, but I hope that people are taking their hard-earned lessons to heart. I know that I am. Last year was an extremely difficult time for me, and I couldn’t be happier that we’re in a new year and decade. Looking back on the past few seasons, it’s clear where I was making terrible mistakes that I hope I will never make again. For instance, I was obviously in a doomed relationship that could never work. We were incompatible on so many fronts, from the way we were raised to the way we appreciated our central heating, cooling, and ventilation system. From the first day that we moved in together, it was clear that we weren’t compatible when it came to indoor air temperature control. The problem was, every day he consistently felt hot and I consistently felt cold. This meant attempting to live together was generally uncomfortable for the both of us. Almost every day, it felt like we got into some kind of scrabble about the indoor air quality and our mutual discontent. He would wake up immediately turning down the thermostat, and I would be sneaking around bumping the temperature back up all day. We had a tumultuous household, air quality and otherwise. I have no idea how we both survived without killing each other or the central HVAC system. I know that 2020 is going to be a lot more comfortable.
