The collateral beauty of 2020

Last weekend I watched the film Collateral Beauty with my husband Steve, aside from being awed by the concept of the film and it’s core message it really got me thinking about what we’ve witnessed this past 10 months. The film focuses around three abstractions, Love, Time, and Death. As the central character, Howard, explains right at the beginning of the film, we long for love, we wish we had more time and we fear death. I realised that since the beginning of 2020 I’ve been increasingly living in a world that focused on me and mine and I had forgotten about the world I had previously inhabited which was more us and ours. As the months have dragged on and with no apparent end in sight for a return to any sort of normal, I along with many others have been drawing inwards ever more deeply, trying to forget that the world outside exists, or at least hoping it won’t impinge in any meaningful way. Although I had love in my life, I feared losing it. I was worried about time passing and things getting no better and I began (for the first time in a long time) to fear death. In other words, I was now living in fear of the three great abstractions. I’ve found myself talking about being insular and wondering how to protect myself and those I care about from an invisible malaise that presents itself not just as a pandemic but also in the rhetoric of politics and isolationism. And in watching the film I had to acknowledge I had become part of the problem. I&#...
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