Guys. Take a step back and let the universe tell you what this life is all about. Stop calling 2020 a “dumpster fire.”
Unpopular opinion time! I’ve had quite enough of this negativity about 2020. It was definitely not a ‘dumpster fire,’ why can’t people see that? I have some friends who privately told me that they were happy about what happened to them this past year. Why do we have to be apologetic for saying we are glad things happened the way they did?
Look, I lost a lot this year, trust me. I’ve just made conscious choices to be positive about the lot I’m served in life. There were a lot of traumatic things happening in 2020 for us all. It left no one unchanged. But our greatest moments as conscious beings always come from the growth after great pain.
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I personally have a completely different viewpoint on life than I did a year ago, and I am so grateful for 2020 shaking things up and completely disrupting my materialistic, wasteful, pointless life. I see now how I can help the world heal. This is part of why I write this.
This is for your healing. This is not to make you angry.
The universe told me back in March, before I was even used to listening to it, that the pandemic was here to re-align and reset humanity because we were on the wrong track. We had to get our asses in gear to start 2021 with love and peace, and a viewpoint on the planet that can sustain us. It was obvious to me. I can’t explain that knowledge in logical terms; it was just something I downloaded from the divine.
I saw people around me focused on parts of the whole, stressing out and letting fear consume them. I saw that the pandemic’s first job was to put death in front of our faces. To remind us that we are mortal. To make us think — even for one fleeting moment — about what happens after death, and why we are here in the first place. To make us realize that we all die.
I would write on social media, “we all die,” and people would get so mad at me. They’d freak out. It was absurd, honestly. I never thought my fellow humans were that afraid. I guess since death is such a taboo subject to speak openly about, I never knew how little other people think about it.
I think about it a lot. Always have. Am I weird?
So, people focused on the death of 2020. But they don’t see that we are just journeyers in one life out of a million that we have lived. We are divine spirits manifesting ourselves here in order to learn, grow, and come away with experiences for the collective consciousness. The more trauma we endure, the stronger we all are. Death isn’t even always trauma — it’s not a negative thing. It’s just a passing of a soul from a physical manifestation to somewhere else.
It’s nothing to fear.
For us souls that are journeying together, death isn’t something to fear. You were born, and you don’t feel fear about where you were before that happened, do you? Death and birth are the same.
Fear itself is something that we should concern ourselves with. It leads to all the stuff in life that is actually worst than death — injustice, inequality, disconnection, hate, and more fear — all things that we were smacked in the face with because of COVID-19.
Death is just a transition. But the negativity and fear that we attach ourselves to? That remains in our energy through to the next destination.
So, 2020 was not a dumpster fire. It was a gift, and a manifestation of our collective consciousness to set us straight. Because nothing else could bring us back to what’s important. The universe knew that it had to do something big to make us all stop in our tracks and pay attention.
To return to my original point: growth cannot happen out of complacency and comfort. It must come from our reaction to the lows of life. We learn about ourselves in these moments. Our choices about what to focus on reveal the parts of us that need work. Our most beautiful moments come from our perseverance and strength that we only get to display when the universe manifests obstacles. The more horrific the trauma, the more growth we experience.
We got to come together in 2020 to help each other. Our families became important again. We united to fight for justice together. We connected with the Earth again. Our society could never have come to anything good if 2020 hadn’t happened.
The people who experience the most trauma are the richest. They get to leave this life with the greatest lessons, and they are the most valuable to us as a species. Our subtle spirits are exchanging energy all the time, and the strongest among us are the people who give us the most valuable exchange of energy.
And if we die from the trauma? Then our life and death help others learn, and we get to move to the next manifestation to learn some more.
If you liked this post, you might like my writing on gratitude in the pandemic.
