2022 what can I say. We were certainly exited when you came in (I mean, I guess we were, honestly, I forgot what I was doing at the time). I suppose we were all just hoping you’d be better than 2021 or 2020. Well guess what? you weren’t.
Yea, you kinda sucked actually. For me anyway. I lost a few people in 2022 and they were not inconsequential people even though I may have treated them as such while they were alive. Covid was a big deal in 2020 and 21 but other than the obvious annoying lockdowns and complete change of lifestyle which I have now become accustomed to it didn’t really affect me much.
That is, other than the fact that my only close family, my mother and brother, both moved away to other states. The fact that I decided to go back to school (in 2020), the fact that I have learned to live and work at home and have changed my lifestyle so much around this new reality that I don’t know if it’s even possible for me to go back to working in an office again. You know, just those other minor things which happened…
Yea 2022, you were supposed to be the year where “things” started to take off.
But no. Instead, it was another slow slough through the weeds. My fledgling company started off the year with a contract for a medical company website and money actually flowing in from crypto mining and ended the year with no contract and a crypto mine that could barely purchase a pack of gum once a month.
What else… The economy? is crap, The world is again teetering on the edge of major violent conflict, and social media is slowly dying, but there is perhaps a light in this.
Facebook, which had become my input source for all things social is now just a bloated pile of advertisements. Twitter, which I barely use has reportedly gotten worse (although I can hardly tell), and I have no motivation to move to Mastadon and get myself involved in yet another tool that I probably won’t use. so what’s the silver lining you say?
Well, perhaps it’s right here. I’m blogging. It’s been about 3 years since I posted anything here, yet here I am again. Maybe you’ll read this. Maybe you’ll “like and subscribe” (Does that even work with blogs, who the F knows right?)
Maybe owning your own content is the key. Maybe 2023 will be slightly better? Guess we’ll have to wait and see.
