2025 - Not the Worst Year

 I know there's still like a week and a half left to the year, but I don't see much happening in that time. So here's my review for the year...

I went through a breakup. It sucked. It still sucks some times. And while we actually broke up the end of 2024, it didn't become real for me until around May time frame. As I'm sure the case is for most people with most breakups, I learned a good bit about myself and a bit about life in general. What sucks is I feel a lot of it was lessons I should've learned a long time ago. C'est la vie.

So when the breakup became real, I told myself the best way to handle it was to keep busy. So I got more serious about having a jogging routine and started going back to jiu-jitsu. That all lasted about a month. Then I felt burnt out and I was back to "taking a break" from it all. It took a few months of being on break, but I did finally start going back to jiu-jitsu again as well as putting the treadmill to use. Not as often or as consistently as I should, but it has been happening and hopefully with time it becomes more regular.

I didn't do as much schooling for the year as I'd been hoping. In fact, I only knocked out one remedial class I needed before I could take an actual class I needed. But each time I signed up for that class, I found myself unable to focus and ended up dropping. Then the government shutdown hit and I found myself without work/pay for awhile, which gave me a lot of time to think about my future. I didn't figure out much, but I did realize I need to get serious about my education/getting a degree. 

I want to have a lot of goals for 2026. I feel like I'm at this point in life where the future will be what I make of it. But I also know that when I give myself goals and then I fail to meet one of them, I have a habit of just giving up on all of them. So while I have a ton of things I hope happen in 2026, I have one goal - completing enough school so that in 2027 my goal can be to finally graduate. (However, in lieu of that goal, I'm willing to settle for winning the powerball).