Having Imagination And Mental Fatigue

Hello, Dear Readers; I hope your week was a productive one.

Usually, having an imagination is a great thing; I love to write, and part of my previous jobs did entail some work imagining scenarios of how customers might react to different promotions. I like being able to create a world in my head and explore it, and then write about the interesting bits down.

Living in 2020 with imagination is...not great, honestly. It's like this year is actively striving to create the world's weirdest apocalypse year bingo card, and every time I think about the implications of each new event and how those could turn out for people, I honestly can't predict what could be next. It's like trying to figure out a domino effect in an M.C. Escher painting.

Things that have already happened in 2020 Bingo: World-wide plague? Check. Mass layoffs in the USA? Check. Protests all over the world against systemic oppression? Check. The USA almost starting WWIII? Check. Murder hornets? Check. Summer-season wide-spread forest fires (first in Australia, now in the USA)? Check. Ebola having another outbreak in Africa? Check. The USA's Pentagon releasing possible proof that aliens exist? Check. Dams which are privately owned and not given proper upkeep breaking and flooding people out of their homes? Check. Dogs and cats, living together in harmony? Check.

I am mentally fatigued to the point where I feel disappointed but not surprised when each new event happens. Our new version of "normal" (in quotes because none of this is even remotely normal) is such that if the next big news story is that Atlantis rose from the sea and declared war on the companies that dump waste in the ocean the most, I'd read through the article while drinking my coffee, watch the video footage, think 'good for them for standing up for themselves', and move on to the next news article.

I would like to end this blog with some fanciful predictions for 2020 to go with the theme it is apparently running on, but I'm slightly anxious to put any ideas out into the universe that could come to fruition and hurt somebody. So instead, predictions for 2020 that will help humanity.

1) A legitimate cure is found for COVID-19 which is both shelf-stable and efficient to make and give to people with minimal side-effects. I say shelf-stable so that it does not require refrigeration to be viable, which helps in the shipping and maintaining of the cure to hot climates.

2) Scientists figure out how to efficiently clean the oceans of all the garbage and micro-plastics.

3) Technology is created and implemented that will drastically reduce harmful emissions made by large manufacturers.

4) Strides are made towards positive systemic changes for the betterment of all humans.

What sort of things do you want to see in 2020? Have a good week, Dear Readers.

-A.M.W.