Like many of you, we're having a hard time believing that it's March 2021. When the pandemic started, no one could have predicted that it would last so long, that we'd lose so much or all the other ways 2020 would demand our attention and call us to action. In addition to the more than half-a-million American lives taken by the coronavirus, there were major protests for racial justice, a presidential election, a rise in anti-Asian hate crimes and an attempted coup at the U.S. Capitol. Add to that the ongoing economic trauma of surviving a once-in-a-generation crisis with little to no aid, and it's no wonder most of us are exhausted and are finding it hard to process the past 12 months.
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I will forever be grateful for the This year has been long enough that I managed to get in shape (for the first time in years) and out of shape. Weird flex, I know.
To do so, we asked ourselves, plus our friends and followers, a series of questions about what they did and didn't do this past year—like what made you irrationally angry, what did you binge and what or who did you miss? We promised to publish everything anonymously so we'd get more honest replies, and we combed through the responses for the ones that felt relatable and made us laugh out loud. That’s just what we need right now, you know? We hope these confessions and rants make you say "It me!” at least once. We also hope that the optimism we’re feeling every time someone we know shares a vaccine selfie becomes more frequent. We all need that. {in}
Here at Inweekly, we debated a few different ways to look back, and honestly, any attempt at summarizing the year just made us mad and really, really sad—mad because it didn't have to get this bad and sad because we personally lost loved ones, people we love lost loved ones and we know that grief is being felt by countless others around the world too. So we decided not to do it. There are going to be more than enough COVID think-pieces and timelines published this month anyway. Instead, we opted to use this, our one-year anniversary of shit-getting-scary issue, to reflect on our time in quarantine (or our time of staying home a little more than usual, depending on how much you heeded CDC recommendations).
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I secretly love being able to pretend my usual adult acne is maskne.
I went without wearing socks or underwear.
Ugh, Facebook. I unfollowed my brother-in-law, sister-in-law and my sister. I have zero regrets. March 18, 2021
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