Last weekend, my son had his Confirmation (coming of age celebration - an affirmation of faith in God and it is also seen as the transition ritual from a child to adult). During the reception one of his friends asked me a question - What is the biggest lesson you have learned in 2020?

I was quite impressed that a 15-year-old was thinking on such a deep level.
My answer was that I’ve learned that during times of crisis, you can either be a giver or you can be a taker and you choose who you want to be. When this pandemic is over and I look back or you look back, the question we will ask ourselves – “What were you, were you someone who gave and helped during the pandemic or were you someone who took?” So I learned that we have a role to play and you have a choice.

“If” by Rudyard Kipling is one of my favourite poems, do you know it?

If you can dream and not make dreams your master;
If you can think and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster;
And treat those two impostors just the same,

If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the earth and everything that in it,
And, what is more, you’ll be a man, my son.