For A Moment, I Thought Things Were About To Get Better
But the new year revealed this to be a phantom hope
6 min readJan 7, 2021
Have you felt the phantom hope of the new year? Or, maybe more precisely, did you feel it, past tense, if only for a moment?
This phantom hope was the opposite of a phantom pain. It was a false pleasure, a trick of endorphins. Sometime around late December, I…