2025 New Year hopes and resolutions

[Downunder Dolphan]

My new year hopes:

2025 won't be personally as shitty as 2024
The world won't be as bad as some of us think with the potential political turmoil ahead
RayGun will disappear as quickly as she appeared, and will never be heard of again

Ps. I stopped making resolutions

[masterfins]

My Resolutions:

Lose Weight, exercise more.

Work more, pay down some debts.

Spend more time with family, hopefully while golfing.

[Dave Gray]

2024 was a bad year for me, in many ways.  Work, family health, struggles for my loved ones, mental health, state of the country, some bad luck with house.

I handled my business and everything is fine, but it was a stressful year to deal with all the things.

For this year, my resolution can best be summed up as "meet people where they are".

I think I have to turtle up a little bit and handle myself and let people hurt themselves and have bad opinions.  I cannot hold the weight of trying to change the world.  In a way, I need to let people burn down their own houses by playing with matches.  I am going to let people fight their own battles for a while.  This includes people in my life.  So, in order to maintain relationships, I am just gonna meet people where they are.  I'm gonna focus on the similarities in my Venn diagram and take care of me and mine.  It's hard to even verbalize what I'm trying to say, but I understand it in my own head.

A lot of this sounds like it's political, but it's not even that specifically.  I have formed some really good relationships with people that have annoying habits or in ways that we are oil & water.  And I did that by hyper-focusing our relationship around things that don't involve the annoying parts.  That has worked, so I'm gonna focus on more of that.