Ominous and Unprecedented

Another year passed, 2020 is over! Hooray, I guess...

This is the first comic of 2021. I was planning to look back to 2020 and review the positive sides of it. To replenish my memory, I searched through the internet, "good things that happened in 2020", but I just could not find them that... "positive" or... "enough". Then I've changed my mind to remember what happened, whether positive or not. Because everybody is only aware of their own society, local area or country, we don't know much about the others. Also, we just don't care that much too. As I kept searching for the news, I realized more about what we had globally. Lots of natural disasters happen around the world at any time. Because we don't read about them or "live" them, we don't wonder that much. I am pretty sure many natural disasters happen each year but because I have read some, they look much more than I thought.

Natural disasters can be scary, deadly... Geography, atmosphere and the structure of the world decide what happens next. We might prevent some of them happen as a knowledgeable community. The rest is mostly unpredictable and sudden, at least with the technology we have right now.

Floods and tropical heavy rains can be seen in a certain climate, disastrous earthquakes can be seen on dangerous fault lines, swarms that devour the entire crop can be seen in vast areas... They affect humanity's life one way or another, directly or indirectly... I think 2020 was very visible for us due to coronavirus as well. Hence I thought the title suits 2020.

Mentioned that positive news wasn't that much more or effective. It is because they are usually local or personal news. "104 years old grandma beat Covid-19" does not sound that important. Because people think that this news does not affect many other people's life. Also, the fact that somebody else has this good news doesn't interest us that much. Is that because we are that selfish or are we incapable to have proper empathy for another? Maybe there is another reason behind that, you name it.

Happiness is a temporary emotion. However, experiencing an earthquake is life-changing. We talked about the reasons: it is unexpected, unpreventable, destructive, real, scary, devastating... So do typhoons, floods due to heavy rain, flashing storms, forest fires, avalanches, landslides, tornadoes, monsoons, plagues, locust swarm invasions...

Living in the reality might make us tend to be more negative or blind to the happy news. I think this is humanly, yet we shouldn't ignore them all. The human being needs hope. Throughout this coronavirus period, the vaccines will be hope for us. To have hope, to prevent the predictable, to protect one another, we should act and have the vaccine when we will be able to. Since it is a pandemic and everyone knows, hears or maybe experiences it, is much easier to have empathy.

When we are together and working for the solution, it comes quicker. Coronavirus vaccines are the quickest developed vaccines among them all in the entire history. There is always hope, there is always good news. And sometimes, one good news is "enough".