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I was sitting there last night and I was thinking: "2020 is over. It's a year that happened in history, and it will never happen again. Good!"
I mean there were a few bright spots in the year, I suppose. But they were more respites from looming doom, and anxiety than they were outright "life is beautiful!" type of moments. Ironically, me and the family proclaimed numerous times in late-2019 that "2020 is gonna be OUR year!" because of the six+ months of mourning/grieving we had for the loss of my father in January 2019. I picked up the motivation bug early, though, and quit social media and started walking/hiking on a regular basis in late-2019 instead of waiting for 2020 to roll around. Come Spring of 2020 and all the parks closed, and there was a lockdown here in St Louis - no exercise to be had. When things lifted, I continued to walk, and continued to lose weight/remain healthy, though.
Now (like in a flash) it is 2021. A vaccine is being rolled out, I'm still off social media, my blogging habits have only increased since the new year (if that's possible), and I'm at the lowest weight I have been since 2016. I have also been on again/off again working on a big web dev project (well, kind of big), and learning a lot along the way. 2021 may not be "MY year", but it has been better than 2020, so far, and I hope it stays that way.
So, GOODBYE 2020! Never want a year like that again.
I'm still off the big social media. Cheers to blogging and small web
Funny to fine a fellow St. Louisian in the pub.
(I left some time ago, but grew up in Ferguson and spent w0 years living in the city.)
Glad you’ve discovered the joy of walking!
Congrats on the successes thus far!
I get the idea of looking at each year accomplishments, I think we all do that.
At the same time I think that if you have a year with big accomplishments, it was probably stressful, complicated, with moments of doubt.
What I mean is that a year of success might not mean that you had a great year if you don't like being under pressure.
Because of that I think we should also learn to enjoy simple things, that are kind of easy to achieve. For example seeing friends, having a meal with them and playing games.
Wishes you all the best!
To the betterment of our days!