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It’s 2025, and We’re Still Stuck in 2020’s Waiting Room
Felt like it’s a time-lapse, years pulling into a continuum between events with each, more surreal than the last?
Since 2019, we have been experiencing a dive through a whirlpool of global and personal turbulence, triggering many of us to question the very essence of reality.
This isn’t merely a call to eulogize the past; it is reminding us that there had already been some major changes in our consciousness as a collective and how we can still search for solid ground amidst the woes.
Let’s unpack this “boring dystopia” to find a way ahead.
You Blinked, and Boom — It’s 2025
The way in which time works is both fast and slow. Some say that for them, the years from 2019 to 2025 exist as “one big blur”. The Covid-19 pandemic put a long shadow over life routines and altered our sense of normalcy, indeed. It is a disorienting time; some say they have been feeling as though they had served many life sentences since 2019.
I felt the pandemic hard hit me. Like many others, I bounced around in an isolated period of uncertainty, which was a far cry from the semblance of stability I had in prior…
