A new year is upon us and I think everyone has that little look back at what has occurred to them during the previous twelve months and try and see if it'd had been a good one, a bad one or one that could be improved on. Well that is if my facebook feed is anything to go by anyway!
I'm no different, I've spent the last couple of days looking back, thinking of some of the things that I've done and think on the whole yes it's been a good one. There have been some truely epic memories made, with some great people who I'm proud to call friends. That's not saying there haven't been those low days, the day my divorce cam through was a particular low point, it made me realise that life doesn't always go as planned and that it's ok to fail and bounce back. Obviously the health issues haven't been great recently but there is light at the end of the tunnel with the operation hopefully happening in February to remove 'Rameses' and to be honest it can't come soon enough.
So highlights, Sam Fender at the Olympic Stadium with Emma, one of the best live acts that I've seen, an electric crowd who hung on his every word. Also seeing Olivia Dean as his warm-up act now that she's exploded onto the scene in a big way. I still watch those videos I took of that show and wish I go back to that night and watch the whole show again. The cheese crawl with Ash, eating some good food and exploring new parts of London, maybe I could have done without the whole Palestine protest march but it was an experience in itself. The reunion of the HIbbert Street lot with our epic pub crawl and drunken phone calls to far flung corners of the world at ungodly times. Visit's to the home of football, at least in my mind, The Tottenham Hotspurs Stadium, Theatre trips, visits to places I've always wanted to go, there's been a fair few, Blethcley Park, Hampden Court, The War of The Worlds Statue the list goes on and on.
Yes there are things that I've had to overcome, plans I've had to change I can't go to the gym at the minute and I'm really missing it, but as I've said hopefully by March I'll be back in training! I've made some new friends, made a lot more effort with those that have stood by me. I like to think I've grown as a person, I don't harbour the same feelings of anger or hatred to a lot of things that I did at the beginning of the year. I've tried new things and developed a love of many new things, chiefly halloumi fries drizzled in hot honey and avocado with chilli flakes in on a burger! I've also learnt new skills, il mio italiano sta migliorando, which if I'm right means my Italian is improving, I'm getting a lot better with it sometimes I wish I would have a proper teacher, maybe not like Madame Rigby my old French teacher from secondary school who in all honesty used to scare the living hell out of me but someone who can help me with getting to grips with being able to hold a conversation and point out where I'm going wrong. The guitar is well not going that well but I'm still persevering and who know someday I may be able to play something remotely resembling a song. I've enrolled on a history GCSE course and aim to put to bed one of my biggest regrets of not doing it at school, so far so good as it's concentrating on British History which is what I'm interested in primarily so fingers crossed I get the passing grade!
So what for 2026? The major thing is getting my head sorted out and I don't mean that figuratively, when that comes out then I can start to plan the next phase in this so called life of mine.
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