2020 – WHAT A YEAR

Everyone at end year starts reflecting back how was the year that is just passing. 

What thoughts and memories will we have from 2020 – Covid 19, of course !!!

What did we learn, suffer, joy and felt during 2020 ?

We have the incredible capability to adapt ourselves when needed. From one day to another, from a culture of meeting people in person every time, we suddenly locked ourselves at home and digitally start connecting again. 

It has been a surprise, how fast, globally, we manage to become virtually.

From birthdays, marriages celebrations, baptisms and happy hours, everything become via a computer screen, cameras and microphones. “Can you see my screen?”, “Do you hear me”, “You are on mute” become the top trend on this virtually World.

Abruptly, grandsons were not allowed to visit grandparents, food and groceries have to be left outside at our parents houses and suddenly stay away from the ones that misses us the most, become the must. Difficult to explain and convince them that we could not get closer and that was for their sake.

Food, medicine, everything become possible to order and be delivered direct to our homes. Just order via the mobile phone. We should not share elevators, wear face masks, alcohol gel and new extra hygienic procedures became part of our daily routines. Keep a safety distance !!

Most of entertainment business had to stop immediately and rethink their way to continue for the near and long-time perspective. Drive through services, Drive In moves start again. Couple of business did not survive and others saw the pandemic as an opportunity to grow and reinvent their selves.

Doctors, nurses and everyone connected to healthy care had overtaken all their fears in order to serve and support the fragile population. Truck and buses drives did their utmost to keep goods and essential co-works moving and brought stability to our society.

The industrial and Agriculture business overpass all safety concerns and develop protocols to continue their core activities up and running and supply the population with aliments and facilities.

Amazing that be part of live events become a trend, even myself, suddenly start become part of presentations and virtually debates on line. Most popular singers start perform live shows and companies adverting and sponsoring huge events. No one physically there, but at home enjoying it with closed relatives.

Virtually, every thing virtually !!! Stay home, keep the distance !!!

As some of you know, I live by the sea, and suddenly could not walk on the beach, imagine that our local beach has been closed. Never seen or image it before.

Enjoy the family at home !!! Work from home, study from home, entertainment at home, not easy !!!! Preparing meals, answering emails, kids running and studying around us, cleaning, ironing everything at same place, from home. Some marriages did not survive, others became stronger, hard to predict. A baby boom shall be expected coming months? Only time will say.

Empathy, tolerance, self-control and patience were abilities that stick out this year !!! Some people did not even knew those skills before the pandemic.

At work, couple of ones like home office, others hate. Many, simultaneous and endless conference calls. Twelve, twenty, fifty, sometime almost eighty in a call meeting. Suddenly we realize that are limit of people that can join a meeting. Let′s make a live !!! Please rise your hand in order to speak or write on the chat that we answer at end of the presentation. Multi-tasking !!! How many issues can a someone handle simultaneous? Which kind of attention can be given? ???? ?? to everyone at any time!!!

Personal interaction is the key of Human Kind, but not remotely. We need to see, touch, smell, share, joy each other in person. Human and Commercial relation relies on personal connection, sympathy and interaction. Creation of trust, confidence and long term relations is 100% connect to meet each other, look at eyes, capture gestures, really getting to know each other.

There is not a magical solution or way correct way forward. Time, patience and wisdom will guide us. Sure that the future will be different from the past, hope better thought !!!

I believe that everyone around the Globe is relieved that 2020 is ending, and expecting the vaccination will spread as fast as the virus and the majority of population will be immunized.

For sure things will not be same as before!! We will survive and together secure a 2021 better than 2020

Bye bye 2020