No Calendar

 Towards the end of the year 2019, I realized that aside from eating to enhance my living, I've not achieved what society expected from my age and gender.

I began to get worried.

I hustled as much as I could but the year won't just yield.

So I sat back, after all, I cannot kill myself by myself.

I bought a big notebook and started making resolutions for the year 2020. I was energized to compete and be richer than Jeff Bezos. I wanted to be more trending than Elon Musk.

And I swiveled into 2020. Yes, it's like I would blow. - my breakthrough seems to be attached to the year.

In January I made some amount of money. Though it couldn't afford to take me on holiday in the Caribbean, but was enough to cover my transportation bill to visit my father's grave in the village with modest feeding.

The hope was high!

In my thoughts; just as a thin line separates dying from living, only a break will move me through my poverty into huge riches.

Then COVID-19, from being an outbreak jumped straight to becoming a pandemic.

Then the human population started the physical distancing. 

The law enforcers became our zookeeper's implementing that we compulsory stay in our houses. 

Some concerned animals, feeling free from humans occupations became worried and were checking up on us just as we used to do on the animals in the zoos.

From March till October of the year, I was busy washing my hands, to avoid contracting the killer virus.

I forgot all my resolutions, I just want to survive.

Now that the year is a few days from ending, and good news of vaccines to fight the virus are emerging, I wish I could have become the wealthy man that I had planned for in the year prior.

So today, I started by writing my resolutions that I want to aggressively pursue. 2021 must be the year that I will achieve more than what I had planned to get in 2020.

My mind is made, my morale is high.

But it's occurring to me now that the COVID-19 doesn't understand the concept of calendar.

Will it vanish itself from the planet before 2021?

Won't another thing happen to keep me from fulfilling my dreams for that year?

I will plan, I will pursue my plan, but I'll not forget to live while pursuing.

I will enjoy every moment that each day will be offering me.

Humans have the calendar, nature knows no such.