2020: Tarisiro vs. Reality
Aya Makore Matsva Evha apfuura aive akazara nekutarisira kunofadza kwegore rinonakidza riri pamberi. Ini nemurume wangu wandakachata naye takapemberera nemunin'ina wangu uye nevamwe vashoma kumashure kuNew York, kwatakabva tose. Takatarisa bhora richidonha paTV uye tinamatira magirazi e champagne tichiyedza kuona kuburikidza nemagirazi edu e2020 akakwenenzverwa, toasting kumuchato wedu waAugust unouya uye zviitiko zvese zvinonakidza zvaizoitangira. Isu, semunhu wese pasi rose, takanga tisina nzira yekuziva kuti chii chaizoitika gore rino.
Isu takanga tisingazive kuti zvinhu zvaizovhara kana kuti masiki aigona kuzowanda kwese kwese semafoni. Isu, sevamwe vese, taive nezvirongwa zvakawandisa zve2020, uye apo patakatanga kushanda tiri pamba, kupemberera mazororo akasiyana siyana nemazuva ekuzvarwa kuburikidza neZoom, uye kutsvaga nzira nyowani dzekuzvivaraidza tisingabude, isu tichine hushingi tichifunga kuti zvinhu zvichaita nani ne zhizha, uye hupenyu hwaizodzokera pane zvakajairwa. Asi nekufamba kwegore uye zvinhu zvikawedzera kuipa, takaona kuti hupenyu hwakajairika hunotaridzika zvakasiyana, pamwe kwenguva pfupi kana pamwe zvachose.
Denda parakaramba richienderera mberi uye Nyamavhuvhu richiswedera, takatarisana nesarudzo yakaoma kupenga: kumisa muchato wedu zvachose kana kuedza kuita muchato mudiki pazuva redu rekutanga, tozoita pati huru gore rinouya. Kuti tigare takachengeteka, takafunga kumbosendeka zvese gore rinouya. Kunyangwe dai COVID-19 mirau yaizotibvumidza kuti tiite mhemberero diki, tingabvunza sei vanhu kuti vaise hupenyu hwavo pangozi uye nehwevamwe kuti vauye kuzopemberera nesu? Tingaita sei kubvunza vatengesi vedu kuti vaite zvakafanana? Kunyangwe dai taingova nevanhu gumi chete vaipemberera nesu, isu takatonzwa kuti njodzi yaive yakawandisa. Kana mumwe munhu akarwara, akarwara vamwe, kana kutofa, hatina kukwanisa kugara nesu pachedu tichiziva kuti tingave takakonzera.
Isu tinoziva kuti takaita sarudzo chaiyo, uye isu tine rombo rakanaka kuti zvinhu hazvina kunge zvakatiipira, asi 2020 rave richiri rakaoma gore, sezvo ndine chokwadi chekuti rave nevanhu vazhinji. Pakutanga kwegore, karenda yedu yaive yakazadzwa nezviitiko zvinonakidza: konzati, kushanya kubva kumhuri neshamwari, nzendo dzekudzokera kuNew York, muchato wedu uye zvese zvinonakidza zviitiko zvepamberi pemuchato zvaifanirwa kuuya nazvo, uye nezvimwe zvimwe. Mumwe nemumwe, zvese zvakaramba zvichimiswa nekumiswa, uye sezvo gore richienderera uye ini ndichiramba ndichiona, "tanga takave kumba kwambuya vangu kupera kwevhiki rino," kana "tanga tichiroora nhasi." Icho chave chiri chinotenderera chinotenderera chemanzwiro, icho chave chakaomarara pane hutano hwangu hwepfungwa. Ndinoenda kubva pakunzwa ndakasuruvara uye ndakatsamwa pamusoro pehurongwa hwangu huri kukwidziridzwa kusvika pakunzwa mhosva pamusoro pekufunga nenzira iyoyo, nekutenderera nekukomberedza kusvikira ndawana nzira yekubvisa pfungwa dzangu pane zvese.
Ndinoziva kuti handisi ndoga ndakambosangana neakakwira uye epasi ekunakidzwa nezvirongwa uye kukanzurwa kwavo kwakazotevera, asi izvo zvinhu zvinoita kuti zvirinani zvive zvinodzora zvinogara zvakasiyana zvichienderana nemanzwiro angu. Dzimwe nguva ndinoda kuchenesa imba yangu ndichiridza mimhanzi, dzimwe nguva ndinoda kuzorora nebhuku kana nhepfenyuro yeTV, uye dzimwe nguva ndinofanira kuzvibvumira kuti ndinyangarike mukurovedza muviri kwenguva refu. Kugara kubva pasocial media kunogona kubatsira zvakanyanya, uye dzimwe nguva kuzvibvisa zvachose kubva kunharembozha yangu ndizvo zvese zvandinoda. Kana dzimwe nguva kungozvibvumira kuti ndinzwe chero chandinoda kunzwa, pasina kuzviita kuti ndinzwe ndine mhosva, zvinobatsira zvakanyanya kupfuura kuzvivhiringidza.
2020 rave risiri iro rinoshamisa gore zvaraifanirwa kunge riri, asi ndiri kutarisira kuti rinotevera gore richava nani. Kana isu tese tikakwanisa kuenderera tichizvidzivirira isu nevamwe nekupfeka mamask, kugeza maoko edu, uye kure kure kwenzanga, pamwe zvinodaro.