This Valentine’s Day, because we should be staying at home and not spreading the virus further, I have 20 movies (and more) that I believe you should watch. Take the recommendations and stay home! Netflix and chill or eat ramyeon with someone (*wink wink*), just stay home so that next year we can spend Valentine’s Day outside again!
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“By the end of the year, I will be the way I envision myself to be:
a better me.”
The definition of a “better me” may vary between individuals, but whether we make resolutions and goals to lose weight, watch less netflix and be more productive, or start journaling every day, it is one characteristic of life and human nature that connects and motivates us all to make them: change.
When we reflect on our society, the most prominent thoughts that come to mind are ones revolving around social atrocities. The truth is, our contemporary society inherited a world that is still reeling from wars as well as economic, social, and environmental crises. The consequences of these circumstances became a normality in everyday life and seem unnecessary to be acknowledged as they are a part of us just as much as they are a part of the world. They make up our values, how we perceive the world, and determine the dreams that we willingly invest in. When confronted by these inevitable circumstances, there always exists two options: resistance or compliance. And what we choose to do with this damaged world is up to us; to either discard it or continue protecting it in hopes of a societal rebirth.
Humans have been reduced to nothing more than a magazine subscription these days; the only difference is that the more issues the individual accumulates, the more likely they are to end up being cancelled.
No doubt that 2020 has been an emotional rollercoaster for all of us, but now that the year has passed and we’ve been transported into 2021 with strings of “Happy New Year!” wishes, it’s time for us to lick our 2020 wounds and start anew. Let’s actually make it a Happy New Year – the year we take back our sense of control that has been robbed by the pandemic.
