Half way thru, how is this year going?

[WhitewaterWoman]

My year is going very well. I had a marvelous time in Switzerland and now I’m planning my canoe trip. I’ve made a few new friends. I’m extremely happy to be living alone in my little house in the woods.

 

[AprilR]

It is blah. I got a new job that i am about to quit. I started a language course, but as usual did not make any lasting friends. Maybe the only good thing is that i reconnected with an old friend

 

[Rodafina]

I started this year out sicker than I ever have been in my life. It was scary, but I have since made a full recovery and am feeling so well. I’m going through this year facing quite a few challenges and uncertainties, but every single day I wake up grateful for my health.

I have been unemployed since my illness, and that does bring some major challenges, but I have been wholly focused on restoring my physical health and keeping my mental health strong. This is the healthiest I have ever been and no matter what challenges are swirling all around me, I am feeling so grateful for each day and content with my life just as it is.

 

[Jeff T]

Personally, it's been going fairly well. Still breathing anyway.
The critters except for my 15 year old cat are well. No problems with anyone, I hope.
Whats going on at the federal level is pretty concerning. Hope we're not heading for
another Gilded Age.

 

[Tired]

I myself had a crazy year, mostly in good ways. I finally finished driving school and got my probationary driver's license (now to wait for 2 years to get the one without any restrictions). Then I found a significant other who makes me feel happier in both my body and this cruel world. After that, I got into a car crash where I did a barrel roll - but both my SO and I survived and were mostly unharmed. Had my first trip in the ambulance car and in the police car.
I'm also more active now: hiking, camping (had my first camping trip this year - it was so much fun), jogging, playing badminton and ping-pong. I'm still going to therapy. Most of the time, it’s very life-affirming, sometimes eye-opening. Other days, I just want to come home, get under a blanket and disappear.
Hopefully I’ll get a raise this month, because I’m feeling incredibly insecure money-wise. I’m still living in my small studio apartment (it depresses me), and I’m not sure if I should buy a car, since it would take most of my savings.
I want to have more friends - both online and in real life - but while on some days I feel energetic and want to chat non-stop, on other days I just want to cut everyone off and not talk to anyone for months. In a way, that’s what happened on this forum: I lost all energy to socialize. While I was still lurking, I didn’t want to participate in discussions.
But I’m so thankful to be alive and (mostly) healthy. I strive to be a better person - for myself and for my SO. Still proudly vegan and queer.
I’ll be 30 this year. Somehow it feels both like a big deal and totally unimportant at the same time, because I’ve never really thought of age as something meaningful in people.

Glad to see that some people had a good first half of the year. Hopefully, those who didn’t will have a much better second half. Life is worth living.

 

[Jonn]

Treading water in the beginning, but starting to move in the right direction.

Spoiler

 

[Jonn]

So far I have been relatively insulated from all the political, economic, and social chaos of this administration

It is good that you don't have to deal with ppl complaining about that all the time.
I find that tedious too.
Life is too short.

Shares are doing well over here, btw.

 

[Kisa the tea]

For me personally this year has been horrible. I don't want to go through all the reasons here but pretty much the only good things about the year for me have been games, my friends and my partner and one trip to the zoo. The rest has been a hectic mess. I'm looking forward to turning the calendar over to 2026

 

[Shevek]

Locally, I'm making slow progress on some projects and getting over some traumas enough to look at trying to deal with others.
Generally, I'm watching all my hopes, dreams, and life's work get trashed in an attempt to make a tiny number of people richer than each other, while their history gets written into the geologic record with mass extinctions and pollution.

 

[Coxhere]

This year is half gone. Has it been a better year, a horrible year, a blah year so far? A self-discovery year, or a year that you are anxiously waiting to end because of the economy, pending retirement or divorce or???

I have some sort of congenital back problem. I don't know what it's called. However, I am unable to stand or walk for more than a few minutes due to severe lower back pain. I've had several treatment interventions, including back surgery, but the pain continues. I say this to let the read know that I am mostly homebound and socio-physically isolated with the exception of using the internet. The year is going positively because of my meditation discipline and now that I have found Aspies Central. I knew that the internet can provide positive things but I didn't know that it could provide something so incredible as this web site!