What did you learn from last year?
People ask questions like this for insight, to make things sound better than they did the year before. I”m not sure I’m that inquisitive.
2023 sucked. I think it sucked for everyone one way or another.
Mine sucked because I had a lot of heart ache. It was the year anniversary of my best friends death. She died in July of 2022, but I felt the year aftermath. I buried my cat, which to a lot doesn’t mean much. But the end of March will always be a sad time for me because that cat was… I’ve always made fun of people (to myself not to them) when they tell me that their cat or dog is like a child to them. Until Dotty was born. Dotty was… Right now I’m looking down the barrel of that year aftermath && I know when March gets here it’s going to hurt just as much as it did in 2023 when I found her.
But at the same time, 2023 was great!
I got a raise at work. If I didn’t have debts before the raise because I couldn’t afford to live beforehand, the raise would be great.
I got engaged to Boyfriend. Planning on doing that in 2025.
But did I learn anything?
I would love to say that I learned a bunch. That I went on some soul searching journey && found the meaning of life. Or that I realized what was missing in my life. Or something huge && big.
All I realized is that I only read seven books this year, and one of them that I thought I read was actually in 2022. I also realized that I haven’t written anything since I finished Frost && that’s been at least three years.
Maybe 2024 will be the year I actually learn something? Or realize something? Or feel something I haven’t felt before.
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