Yellow and gray

The company Pantone has officially launched its colors for 2021 - yellow and gray. To be specific, it was ultimate gray and illuminating yellow. It was a pinch of positivity coupled with the sternness the other colors bring. Maybe it is a forecast of the year to come, 2021. Yellow comes in bright, full of energy and happiness. It is a radiant glow that we seem to have forgotten in the past months. Gray, on the other hand, reminds us that we still have responsibilities and “adulting” tasks to do.

Many of us want to forget 2020 so badly. It was the year that damaged us severely because of the effects the pandemic. We remember the day when we weren’t allowed to go out because of the quarantine restrictions and the many issues that hounded the response of our local governments. Here we are surpassing every milestone COVID hurled us with but the question is, will this year be better than last? I hope so. I then realized that this will be all our choice in the end.

The racks in my favorite membership grocery store are now filled with exercise equipment. The last week I was there, they were full of alcohol to consume for the new year celebrations. Seems like they really want to prove a point. Ate too much? Then sweat it out, you must. And it is a cliché, how the vicious cycle of gaining and losing comes to full circle as the year comes to a new one.

Do you still have your new year resolutions? I bet you do. Maybe it is that one change that we want for the betterment of us all. However, the challenge is to keep it and sustain it until the very end. If you ask me, resolutions are also clichés. There’s nothing about me that I want to change or improve. Well maybe, I just want to learn the art of not caring at all. I just want myself and my life to improve, there was so much lost in 2020. There was too much of tears and heartbreaks.

Yellow and gray will remind us of the next 12 months - that despite a new year there are still chances of falling into the same pit again. Another lockdown? Another wrong turn, wrong decision? It could be possible. If you learned hard enough from 2020, then this year should be great for you.

As we go back to work and look at our vacation pictures, we should also keep in mind the goals that we intend to keep. We want a better year, a new us, all new. Society will remain as it is, but we have the power to change who we are. I guess, we’ll see you all at the finish line.