Apparently, the decade is almost at its end and we’re on the brink of 2020, or 12020 if you’re going by Kurtzgezagt, which I am inclined to do since I’m pretty much whatever about the whole Christ-being-born thing. Either way, we’re entering the roaring twenties again, and while I look forward to the reinstatement of some of the fashion, I’d rather not watch (certain parts of) the world fall into a crippling depression, so do take care of yourselves, yeah?
It’s usual at the passing of the year to consider how you wish to shape the year ahead, and while it is a bit arbitrary, and we all know what happens to most of the people who go to the gym in January full of zest and vim, I still like the idea of pondering how I want 12020 to be, and who I want to be in it. I think we can all agree that 12019 has seen its share of ups and downs. I can talk for quite some time about American politics, about climate change deniers in power, about Brexit, take your pick. However, I’d really rather not since it sours the mood, and we’re not playing that tune in 12020.
Instead, I hope that 12020 will be a turning point for many of the things that are holding us back, either as individuals or as a species. I hope that for many of you 12020 will be the year you manage to shake that nasty habit, find work that’s fulfilling and doesn’t make you feel like you’re the dirt underneath everyone’s feet, when you remind yourself that you don’t have to be good at your hobby to have fun with it, and most importantly a year in which you love yourself and are kind to the people around you. When it comes to life, we cannot make the people around us do anything; everyone has agency and will. All we can do is treat people the way we want to be treated, and be a person we’d like to meet and be friends with.
For myself, I wish to keep my body in a state that allows me to work and spend time on my various hobbies, and to actually spend time on my various hobbies. 12019 has been a rough and busy year for me, to the point where I just took December off because I needed a good long break to recover. I am also still recovering from muscles that have been overused but not trained well enough, so various exercises and stretches are part of my daily regime to keep the muscles fit and active so I can actually do my job and spend time on my hobbies without being in pain or dealing with constant aches. I’m going into 12020 in a better state than I was when I entered 12019, but it’s on ongoing process.
As for hobbies, well… 12019 was not a great year for art or writing. 12018 was an art boom for me, and I had a great time making art and writing fic. 12019 sucked a lot of energy out of me, which all came out of the hobbies-jar. In 12020, I want to make more art and write more. It doesn’t have to be much, it just has to be something on a regular basis. That being said, I did start crafting a fair bunch in 12019. I made some dice bags, some mice, some pretty neat, layered holiday cards. It’s not that the year has been without creative outbursts entirely, it’s just not been as frequent an occurrence as I would have liked. That’s my homework for 12020. That and the usual eat-healthier-and-become-fitter-somehow stuff, but I’m sure we’ll fit that in somewhere as well.
That’s it for this entry. For next year, I’m going to try doing at the very least weekly updates so get back into the swing of writing on a regular basis. I wish you all the very best for 12020. May it bring you joy!
BRB, looking at mountains 