“Worst Year EVER”

— Said everyone, always

One of the perks of being 31 in an era where everything happens faster and faster each year is that I get to be a bitter old man long before my ancestors had to. I’m not gonna turn this into self-promotion and tell you my story of why exactly I have grown up so fast.

Every year, at some point, I start hearing people say “___ sucks”. The positive among the bunch will joke and say that they will just go to sleep now and next year will be better. Well, there’s even a German song about 2020 called “WTF”. The lyrics are in German (sorry about that), but I find it both hilarious and enlightening.

It’s essentially a story where they wake up a guy named Billy at the end of September (as requested by Green Day). They tell him the story of 2020 they pretty much go down the line from a possible WWIII, to fires in Australia, everyone wearing masks during the pandemic, and they even throw in Kobe (😭still too soon). I’m not gonna bother putting links to those events, we all know what I am talking about because 2020 has been “the worst”.

However, it is the final lines that I want to highlight above others.
Here they are in English:

He’s sitting on the bed,
completely perplexed.
“I wish you’d never woken me up”
«Billy, if you think all of that disappears while you sleep,
the world remains the same»

Here’s the full translation of the song. And here’s the song (for those who don’t think German can sound…