2020 has been, as many people have commented already, absolute shit. For so many reasons. I've been doing my best to shake off any unpleasant, negative feelings for the most part — as I've previously talked about, the whole "lockdown" thing initially was absolutely fine with me, as I'm more than happy to do my thing independently — but as time goes on, it seems that things are just getting worse and worse, not better.
The chaos surrounding the race relations situation in America has been bleeding over into this country quite significantly. Public places are being defaced, things are being destroyed, creative works are being removed from public circulation… it's all starting to get a bit scary, to be perfectly honest. As I saw one person on Twitter say the other day, "that's the point", and I sort of get that… but for someone who has always done his best to keep his head down, get on with things, be a generally decent sort of person to anyone he comes into contact with and, you know, not be a racist… I don't really know how to react.
I honestly don't know what the end outcome of everything happening right now is going to be, and in some ways I feel like I don't want to know. There are already some things happening that are setting dangerous precedents, and I don't know if the people who are fighting for what is an inherently just cause realise what some of the long-term, unintentional side effects of the current situation are going to be.
I guess all we can do is wait and see, really. With each passing day it feels like it's getting harder to remember what a "normal" life was like. And I don't like it.
Thank heavens for video games, I guess.
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