With the topic of the Chronbyl fires coming up and "2020 BAD" memes once again being in style, I'd like to take this moment to discuss something I've been sorting out for a while, but never quite figured out how to present it.
For the past 6-ish years, I've always seen people making memes and comments about the current year being bad, or certain years being bad for a variety of reasons. What gets me is how people just seem to throw this "year bad" ideology out there without any proper explanation.
What I'm getting at here is that while celebrity deaths, forest fires, virus quarantines, etc. may be terrible to some, others may not care at all. Part of what determines the quality of your overall life is not just what happens in the world or what happens to you, but also how you decide to take in said information, process it, and how it affects you as a person.
I've discussed this with other users on this site before, but sometimes people on this site just take things too far. They collect every single forest fire, volcano explosion, celebrity death and act as if the world's ending. Over-reacting has been the Internet's go-to reaction to pretty much everything these days, and I'm honestly sick of it.
If I'm being honest, the whole COVID quarantine has allowed me to see my whole family together one more time before my brother gets married and moves away. I don't think that would've happened otherwise.
Like I said, what you make of a situation or of your year will be the deciding factor that determines its quality. Not natural disasters, not celebrity deaths, not disasters that happened miles away from where you live.