Who doesn’t love an even number? We’re calling in 2020, and any new decade seems like a fitting time to transform our lives. Optimism can come in many forms, but in this case it seems more of a crutch. Everyone has all these grand plans for the upcoming year; embarking on a new decade after spending the last ten years in an existential crisis. Why discredit their motivation to become a better person? Or are they simply relying on the universe to provide some undeserved karmic reward for surviving into this “new” year. What clean slate is waiting on the other side of midnight?