These are Dark Times

But sometimes the dark brings out the best in us

Trevor Blake
10 min readOct 23, 2020
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I’m sure 30 or 40 years from now most of you will be telling your grandchildren about the time that you had to ‘social distance’ — the time when the whole of the world was in lockdown and everyone wore scary masks, a time of daily death counts and daily briefings from the president… who communicated with a now-defunct thing called social media.

(You’ll have to try to describe that to your holographic communication device-addicted grandchildren much like my Grandmother tried explaining what it was like in school to write on small chalkboards.)

Jaw-dropping, eyes wide — because leaders could not possibly be so fumbling and inept and people would never be persuaded en masse to swallow such bad advice — the grandchildren will lap it up.

And then the moment you say:

“But actually, they were the best days of our childhood…”

They’ll decide that you’re just exaggerating and conclude it’s just the fantasy of an aging mind. Bless Granny… she does like to dwell in the past.

These times remind me so much of my teenage years growing up in the UK.

Trevor Blake
Trevor Blake

Written by Trevor Blake

Perpetual student of life. Author of NY Times Bestseller, Three Simple Steps. Author of new book, Secrets to a Successful Startup — https://www.trevorgblake.com

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