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Turn over a new leaf…… ...a visionary approach …you can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep on re-reading the last one… asserts Inderjit Singh, an ICAO consultant and a scholar in social sciences…
— BY INDERJIT SINGH
The allusion to “turn over a new leaf” and
lessons-learnt intact on the hind side, reforming,
starting over afresh has been used since the
realigning and embarking over a new journey
16th century. This idiom in its original context
towards performance, progress, productivity, and
was used to, turning to a new blank page of a
prosperity – leading to a robust world economic
book. The “leaf” in this phrase does not refer to
order and wellness of the planet.
the leaf on a tree, but rather the pages in a book. Even though it has not always meant “change for the better” it has always meant that you are
THE “UNPRECEDENTED 2020” - A REALITY CHECK:
starting over. When you turn to a new, clean page you are leaving the past behind you and
What a year it has been! Last year showed
starting over.
us the world as an extremely challenging and unpredictable place. What words would you
This expression could not have been more
chose to best sum up 2020? The pandemic has
appropriate than in the current times. This
shaken the world as never before. With terms
metaphor “turn over a new leaf” however, in the
such as quarantine, social distancing, online
present context and in this write-up refers to
learning, remote work, and zoom parties, it
an attitudinal change, a new life-cycle and/or a
seems like our everyday lexicon will forever be
new system of life, leaving the past behind - with
changed by the words and phrases that have
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