Just based on social media and the memes I see flying across my dashboard, I know I am not the only one who is not viewing the imminent arrival of 2022—something usually done with a New Year—as full of possibilities, a fresh start and chance to clear the slate and start new. With the level of abject crazy in the world this past year (remember when we all said 2021 had to be better than 2020?), it seems everyone is fearing this new year will just be a continuation of everything we've been dealing with, but ratcheted up to 11 because—God help us—it's another election year.
And now Betty White is gone? That's destroyed any remaining hope I had that 2022 was going to be any better than 2021.
Fuck you, 2021. And fuck you in advance 2022.
I love the "fuck you in advance 2022".
Let's enter this new year with fingers crossed and teeth clenched.