A George Floyd mural in Houston, TX on September 5, 2020. Photo: The Washington Post/Getty Images
âThere is no better teacher than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.â â Malcolm X
I wouldnât repeat 2020 for all the tea in China.
It was a year of pain and heartache, loss and death, uncertainty and fear.
But for all the sadness and downright misery that defined these past 12 months â from the untimely deaths of basketball great Kobe Bryant and actor Chadwick Boseman through the endless months of coronavirus quarantine and the police violence that sparked Americaâs racial reckoning â itâs become clear the happenings of 2020 were, indeed, a necessary evil.