Since the coronavirus health crisis erupted at the beginning of the year, we have not stopped seeing around the world how appointments, events and plans for the 2020 calendar were gradually being canceled. On Twitter some joked that the entire year was being canceled. After George Floyd's murder, many declared that this year should definitely be removed. With this background idea Leslie Dwight, a 23-year-old designer who had 4,000 followers on Instagram until June 4, published a poem (you can read it in Spanish below) that invited you to reflect on whether this 2020 should be canceled or if it can come to be the most important year of all because of the changes it can trigger. Only the original post has half a million likes And Dwight has added more than 40,000 followers in three days, according to the SocialBlade tool.
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Although the text has been shared mainly through Instagram, where singer Billie Eilish and actress Mindy Kaling have spread it, some Twitter users have also published it on this social network. In the first part of the poem, the designer talks about how this year "so uncomfortable, painful, scary and raw" forces people to grow, to mature. "A year that screams so loud it wakes us up from our ignorant sleep," she says. The poem continues like this: "A year in which we finally accept the need to change." Many people have launched messages along these lines in recent months, asking society to reflect on how they lived before the pandemic and what can be done to make the post -vid world something better and more sustainable. Demonstrations after the Floyd murder also call for change, greater security for African-American citizens.
Overcoming her father's death when she was little is what Dwight taught her to cope with during difficult times, so with this poem, as she told the NBC Today program, she wanted to convey a little hope to those who are spending it bad these days. The poem continues: "A year in which we finally unite, instead of separating more." The text ends with this conclusion: "2020 is not canceled, rather it is the most important year of all."
In the original post, some people have written comments thanking the young woman for her words, while others have reproached her for insinuating that what has happened in the last days with the murder of Floyd is what the world needed to promote change. "I'm not saying that, but the murder happened. Now we can come together and create change, and in five years we can look back and see that this year was not canceled, that it was a revolutionary year, "he told the television program.
The translated poem
"What if 2020 isn't canceled?
What if 2020 is the year we've been waiting for?
A year so uncomfortable, so painful, so terrifying, so crude, that it finally forces us to grow.
A year that screams so loudly that it finally wakes us up from our ignorant sleep.
A year in which we finally accept the need for change.
Declare change. Work for change. Become the change. A year where we finally came together, rather than parted further.
2020 is not canceled, it is the most important year of all. "
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