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Recap - was 2021 a bad year?
4 years ago
So, another year passes and a lot has happened and is still going on.
I've seen many of my friends speak of 2021 as yet another shit year of Hell, but for me it hasn't, yet in a way it has. It's hard to explain, so I'll try.
2020 was a cursed year, like an airstrike. We could only huddle together in the safe room as the bombshells dropped from above, shaking the world around us. We were powerless to do anything but hold those dear to us, cry and wait for it all to pass over. As 2020 turned into 2021, the bombs finally stopped falling. But as we emerged from the shelter, opening the hatch and peeking out, we were faced with all the consequences of 2020. The sheer and utter destruction that that year brought with it. Homes in ruins, friends and family members dead, financial ruin, homelessness, disease and sickness...
... and as such, 2021 - while not being bad on its own - became the year of putting out all the fires that 2020 started and trying to rebuild, while the dark smoke of 2020 still lingered in the air, overshadowing everything. We had to face all that happened and try to save what could still be saved.
Benefits of 2021:
- We got the vaccines rolled out on a large scale.
- The panic shopping and stockpiling stopped.
- I managed to start therapy for my CFS, which I got in 2020.
- We (me and my mates) got more stability and independency.
- I finally managed to get a new job after losing my old one in 2020; with better policies and better pay. In fact, one of the best jobs I've had so far.
So basically, it feels like 2021 was spent dealing with all the shit that happened in 2020; and was basically spent trying to survive after all the damage that cursed year did to us, to the world. So... at least for me, not a bad year in of itself, it just got overshadowed by a lingering dark.
Personally, I really look forward to 2022. I have so much hopes in this new job and I hope I get to keep it. Slowly but surely we (me and my mates) are rebuilding everything we lost. Like I said in this upload as we saw the "birth" of Cyber Val: "The world has changed. And as changes happen, we must adapt. The only way is through. The only path is forward. We dapt. We Overcome."
I'm often dark and grim in my mood these days. We live in a Dystopia, I've come to realize that. So when we start to realize that and accept it, we can start to work with it. A problem to be fixed, a solution to be found, a bug in the code to the matrix that needs to be patched. You need to be smart, adapt and play the system that plays you. And that's what we're doing. Step by step, brick by brick. And while we're going at it, better fucking enjoy the ride~ Take some time to actually live.
Travel, fuck, drink, get high. Whatever makes you feel alive that doesn't harm anyone else. Explore your gender identity, try something new. Life is short. Old timey morals tries to tell us that its bad to live life, that its bad to enjoy ourselves, and that we should just be good little cogs in the machine who do as we're told. Fuck that. Enjoy what you can while it lasts, and as they say in the song: "These bad decisions haunt me, but they make good stories!"
When you get old, you don't wanna think about all the things you didn't do. You wanna think of all the things you did do.
Be your own legend Merry Blessings of 2022 from me to you!
I've seen many of my friends speak of 2021 as yet another shit year of Hell, but for me it hasn't, yet in a way it has. It's hard to explain, so I'll try.
2020 was a cursed year, like an airstrike. We could only huddle together in the safe room as the bombshells dropped from above, shaking the world around us. We were powerless to do anything but hold those dear to us, cry and wait for it all to pass over. As 2020 turned into 2021, the bombs finally stopped falling. But as we emerged from the shelter, opening the hatch and peeking out, we were faced with all the consequences of 2020. The sheer and utter destruction that that year brought with it. Homes in ruins, friends and family members dead, financial ruin, homelessness, disease and sickness...
... and as such, 2021 - while not being bad on its own - became the year of putting out all the fires that 2020 started and trying to rebuild, while the dark smoke of 2020 still lingered in the air, overshadowing everything. We had to face all that happened and try to save what could still be saved.
Benefits of 2021:
- We got the vaccines rolled out on a large scale.
- The panic shopping and stockpiling stopped.
- I managed to start therapy for my CFS, which I got in 2020.
- We (me and my mates) got more stability and independency.
- I finally managed to get a new job after losing my old one in 2020; with better policies and better pay. In fact, one of the best jobs I've had so far.
So basically, it feels like 2021 was spent dealing with all the shit that happened in 2020; and was basically spent trying to survive after all the damage that cursed year did to us, to the world. So... at least for me, not a bad year in of itself, it just got overshadowed by a lingering dark.
Personally, I really look forward to 2022. I have so much hopes in this new job and I hope I get to keep it. Slowly but surely we (me and my mates) are rebuilding everything we lost. Like I said in this upload as we saw the "birth" of Cyber Val: "The world has changed. And as changes happen, we must adapt. The only way is through. The only path is forward. We dapt. We Overcome."
I'm often dark and grim in my mood these days. We live in a Dystopia, I've come to realize that. So when we start to realize that and accept it, we can start to work with it. A problem to be fixed, a solution to be found, a bug in the code to the matrix that needs to be patched. You need to be smart, adapt and play the system that plays you. And that's what we're doing. Step by step, brick by brick. And while we're going at it, better fucking enjoy the ride~ Take some time to actually live.
Travel, fuck, drink, get high. Whatever makes you feel alive that doesn't harm anyone else. Explore your gender identity, try something new. Life is short. Old timey morals tries to tell us that its bad to live life, that its bad to enjoy ourselves, and that we should just be good little cogs in the machine who do as we're told. Fuck that. Enjoy what you can while it lasts, and as they say in the song: "These bad decisions haunt me, but they make good stories!"
When you get old, you don't wanna think about all the things you didn't do. You wanna think of all the things you did do.
Be your own legend Merry Blessings of 2022 from me to you!
I'm more hopeful for the future than I've ever been, myself
I am looking forward to 2022 too and wish anyone who reads this all the best.