Resilience, gratitude and connectivity: 2020 lessons learned

It must only be a matter of time before the cinema timetables highlight "2020" – written by Stephen King, directed by Quentin Tarantino and catalogued under non-fiction, drama and sci-fi blockbuster. A must-watch movie that tells the story of the rise and fall of an honest working-class family whose pre-pandemic stocks rose through decades of hard work, sacrifice and tears only to be wiped out with the viral infection of a once burgeoning travel industry. At the risk of being a spoiler, theatre-goers will endure a bitter-sweet conclusion after the plot traverses the agony of business failure, relational breakdown and suicide but an eventual recovery by mid-2021. It's a script a Hollywood screenwriter would have been told was "too out there" in 2019, but now to all of us, stings with the sardonic reality of sunburn.