The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me by Dominic Peloso

I don’t have a book published, I am not writing a book, but I am a writer again for the first time in several years. So what is the best thing that has happened to me in 2020? I have a become a writer. So today I wanted to take time to tell you about the best thing that has happened to me in 2020 and ask you to reflect on the year yourself. Even though we are isolated and being physically distant from one another, people have found ways to continue to connect with family and friends, and I personally have found that a lot of what has happened during Covid-19 to be inspiring.

Communities are pulling together in unexpected ways. People are demonstrating great kindness towards others. It is however, important to remember that not everything happening is awful. It’s easy to shake our heads and think, what are we coming to? Because let’s face it, nothing makes much sense right now, and we have no idea if anything will ever again be the way it was before this pandemic broke out. It’s easy to focus on the stressful, crazy things happening in the world right now. In fact, earlier today I joked that Mercury must be in a perpetual, never ending retrograde because this year is just…nuts about sums it up. I don’t know what any of us thought the year would hold, but it wasn’t this. I remember my Twitter feed filled with excited tweets about how amazing people wanted to make 2020, how excited we were about being in a new decade. We had no idea when we rang in the decade that it our happy cheers and optimism would peter out only a mere three months later. No one saw a pandemic breaking out, or that as a result most countries would essentially shut down in order to keep people at home so that the virus would not spread, and less people would become infected and potentially die. 2020 is certainly a year for the history books.

The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me by Dominic Peloso