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| It sure looked different back then Orlando, FL December 31, 2019 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
But as 2021 fades into 2022, I’d be remiss if I ignored it completely. Because we’re living through an extraordinary moment in history, and it can’t hurt to put a stamp on our second such celebration under the shadow of an invisible-to-the-naked-eye virus.
What you see here is the fireworks show at Disney’s Magic Kingdom just before we rang in 2020.
What you can’t see is the scene on the ground, with crowds packed so tightly that I literally had strangers standing in my face, and I could barely move my feet on the ground lest I step on theirs.
We had been hearing stories about something called coronavirus coming out of China, but like so many headlines of any given day, we had no clue it would ultimately become a generation-defining global event.
Still, I tossed the headlines around my head as I stood still enough to maintain my personal space amid the tightest crowd I had ever been a part of. And despite the insanity, our little family made indelible memories that night.
Two years later, this photo, along with the moment it represents, seems as if it came from another lifetime. And returning to the so-called way it was seems like such a hopelessly quaint notion.
And so we won’t.
As we prepare for 2022, we don’t know any more about what tomorrow might offer than when we were preparing for 2020, or 2021, or any other arbitrarily defined milestone.
Every day is a mystery. Whatever that calendar says, we’re blessed to have it at all.
Maybe that’s the so-called resolution we all need. Just be thankful.
I know I am.
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