2020 has been the year of tested values.

March, life is simple. We go to the bar on Friday, hug our loved ones, and don’t argue about the moral implications of masks – because the need is not present.

We attend sporting events, go to work, do groceries regularly and sit at home, because we want to.

December – our values have changed.

The bar is closed.

We hug over zoom.

Grocery stores can be life or death for our weak and elderly.

And masks are a political statement of violence.

Hardship creates the conditions necessary to expose us – Splitting us into tribes.

2020 has offered us something many of us will likely miss.

It has given the wise the chance to question value, and the willingness, to create it.