Thoughts on 2024?

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    We're now less then a week away from New Years and 2025 starting; and I'm curious about how 2024 went for you guys. Would you say it was better than 2023? Did any major / unexpected events happen? What are your hopes / plans for next year?
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    2024 was a pretty solid year for me, though not crazy good. I made an effort to branch out more instead of just relying on the same media properties for entertainment, which I'm glad I did since I've discovered a bunch of new franchises / series I really like. This will be the last full year I'm living at home / attending high school; so there was definitely a sense of prepping for moving on to new horizons (eg: taking standardized tests, saving money, applying to colleges, thinking about what exactly I'm going to do with my life, etc) while my actual material life remained essentially the same as 2023. This was also my first full year on PC, and it definitely played a much bigger role in my life compared to '23; I really enjoyed GT and it felt like I was able to get to know people much better, making some good friends along the way. I also like to think I've grown a bit as a person. Overall, I'd give it a 7/10.
     
    2024 for me was part amazing, part traumatic, mostly a sum of my own stupidity. I saw celebs come to our uni, and enjoyed concerts with friends. I also did some self-harming and started distancing myself from said friends.

    Needless to say, I've a huge list of resolutions. I need to fix myself this year because IDK what I'm gonna do if stuff don't work out.
     
    This year for me was quite a significant one in hindsight. The most important changes for me were the return back to the core of what I am, the re-integration of once dissociative halves into one and taking ownership of the emotional turbulence within myself. The less important but still significant changes were kicking a certain fan game community that had been a mental toll out of my life, the journey towards seeking reformation of society where I live & restarting the sketching & game design stuff again.

    2020s so far has been one of those decades with its abundance of punks who cannot take a hint that inserting RL problems everywhere while constantly proclaiming the categorizations you identify with is a ticket to getting ostracized by others. But if there's a silver lining, people have started to become so annoyed by these bad faith actors doing the inserting of RL matters into their communities, they have actually sought to change those RL elements.
     
    2024 started off as any other year basically untill in March when everything turned upside down in my whole life :'D
    Thats when I started being together with my partner and I've been having a blast of a time ever since. If someone told me those events were to happen at the start of the year I'd have called everyone crazy for it.

    Plans for next year is just to make it an even better year than 2024 personally... along with saving up to move out.
     
    it was honestly a very bad year. It started awfully since January 1st and then I had some good things and bad things. Despite having got my degree this year, it was still a year full of awful moments. Sometimes I thought it's been the worst year of my life, but I don't feel like saying that at the moment. But for sure, one of the worst years of my life. Hopefully 2025 will magically make things brighter lol
     
    2024 sucked. i'm going to die in 2025. i won't even make it to 20
    honestly i don't even care anymore because the world's slowly killing itself anyways
    why do i even exist if my rights will be taken away because of project 2025
     
    PoryKid575 said:
    We're now less then a week away from New Years and 2025 starting; and I'm curious about how 2024 went for you guys. Would you say it was better than 2023? Did any major / unexpected events happen? What are your hopes / plans for next year?
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    I would say that 2024 was indeed better for me than 2023. I learnt many new things along the way, got admission into the masters course, and few others. Not to forget that I also joined PokeCommunity this year only, due to which I came across many people from different part of the world, and from their wise experience I understood many social skills which I was lacking due to my limited interaction. I also made new friends as well, with whom I use to discuss on many topics whichever comes to our collective mind, irrespective of the time.

    Just like life is tend to be, so along with ups, there were downs as well. There were tense moments, some tough phases and sleepless nights(for the exams which concluded recently), and so on. But those situations helped me to know in which sectors I am lacking my commitment and which sectors are underused by me.




    This year was bit different from from past few years because I was struggling to get a triggering to run ahead, and life was completely monotonous. Lots of pressure and self-doubts was over me. And l considered this year to be make-or-break year. Luckily, I got an average-push, but at least that helped me to go ahead.






    So what's next in 2025?

    I won't allow this momentum to peter out, and will try to push myself to better version of mine and look out for the area of improvement and bring on those changes rapidly.
     
    2024 has been a very negative year over all for me sadly. but it had some positives <3
    tazmily menace said:
    2024 sucked. i'm going to die in 2025. i won't even make it to 20
    honestly i don't even care anymore because the world's slowly killing itself anyways
    why do i even exist if my rights will be taken away because of project 2025
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    ah, i feel you, if i wasn't a minor, i'd 100% move to Canada. but if things go that way, it's gonna be way more than a rough year than me... lets hope it can somehow work out🫂
     
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    [PokeCommunity.com] Thoughts on 2024?

    2024 sure was a year, hey?
    I think overall, the year was difficult, but I'd be lying if I didn't say I still thought it was good. I think it came in waves, up and down. There were things like the last Love Live mobile game shutting down, some YouTuber drama I was hurt by, some private drama I won't go into, and running myself hard into some burnout at the end of the year I still haven't fully recovered from.
    However, there was a lot of good in it! I played some games I really enjoyed, started reading manga more and loving that, had a lot of great experiences with friends, tried my best to be more social, celebrated a lot of raid clears with my FFXIV group, and there were just a lot of things I've been really excited for and satisfied by over the course of this year.

    I think I had a lot less to worry about in 2023, a lot less on my mind, but by the end of that year I was really hoping to commit to making improvements, and I'd say I've done most of what I set out to. 2025 is a scary year for me, saying this before it's even started, because it's one where I plan to make a lot of major changes. I spent a lot of this year either worrying about next year or trying to recover from whatever got in my way, but I feel happy at the end of it, and there's things I've been thankful to have experienced.
    Good year.
     
    Overall mixed I suppose. Stressful in the middle due to an overseas move again - part and parcel of academia I suppose.Given the recent move just me and Janna for the Xmas period, but I don't min the quiet too much, just missing family and friends.

    Started off well overall in that I got a job offer I only recently started, and I also got to catch up with friends back in SA while at a couple conferences. Shortly before the actual move did narrowly miss out on another (perma) job opportunity which was unfortunate, but in the end it seems I wasn't going to get it anyway based on who the panel wanted. So that was a bummer, but treating the uproot as an adventure and overall have enjoyed being in the UK so far, relatively minor grievences aside. We even got all our stuff we shipped intact this year!

    Hoping for a few talks at conferences and also trips next year, wrapping up some long-term projects, and having more time on the side compared to this year for hobbies and the like.
     
    Really, 2024 was spent mostly dealing with the repercussions of the unexpected change I had happen in my life in 2023. So it was a year spent clearing out the bad excuses, while also having new experiences that I wouldn't have had otherwise. The year seemed to go by ridiculously fast. I was looking back at old text messages sent at the beginning of the year to someone, and it felt like just yesterday we were talking about what we did.

    As for 2025, I'm actually kind of excited for the year. I have plans to continue growing as a person and continuing to experience new things. There will be two weights that will be lifted towards the end of the year, so I wouldn't have to worry about those. And I've learned since July 2023 not to really plan for anything, so I'm mostly just waiting to see what happens, and to not worry too much.
     
    2024 was nothing for me. A nothing year. But, I finally stopped being completely reclusive, I guess. But, that's it.

    Aside from being tormented about my hair the Neck Incident that left a permanent dark spot there.

    Nothing. Just nothing. Writing, and that's it.

    2025 will be a nothing year, too. My life is nothing, I guess.
     
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