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Phrase: Leaps and bounds
About this time two years ago, the coronavirus, which has been the bane of our lives for two years, first began to raise its head.
Some news stories mentioned a strange disease in Wuhan, China, but nobody was paying attention.
When China first officially announced it on December 31, 2019, little did we know that it was already spreading around the world in leaps and bounds.
When something happens in leaps and bounds, it occurs very rapidly or makes great progress in a short period of time.
We were all happily oblivious to the death and suffering that was to come.
Little did we know that a virus emerging in an obscure city in China that few had ever heard of was going to change our lives.
And change our lives it did.
If you are a steady reader of my posts, you know I like to say two things: variety is the spice of life, and change is the only constant in life.
Well, we’ve had change so rapid that it occurred in leaps and bounds throughout 2020 and now 2021.
What does 2022 hold in store for us, I wonder?
Well, I don’t have to tell you that the one guarantee is that life will not be returning to anything like the way it was in 2019.
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.
L.P. Hartley
We cannot live in the past.
We have to move forward and make progress.
COVID-19 has caused change and advancement of biblical proportions on a global scale.
It’s not all bad.
The Second World War caused human ingenuity and invention to jump forward in leaps and bounds.
When the children of the future study our experiences in history books, it’ll be obvious.
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