In Which we Wrap up 2022, who'd knew!

Good morning to you, my friend, reader of this post, maybe even of this blog in general! How are you today? How are things going, this last Friday of 2022? Who'd knew! We reached the end of another year, at the divagation store! It was one of much instability, that is for sure, I would risk more than the usual in my life, which is the only valid metric I can use. I mean, we've started with me switching courses, going to try my chances at the course of design, at my old college, where I used to attend architecture classes. It was a chance that didn't work out too well... and so I ended my enrollment, going instead to study (after venturing and searching a bit) Business and Management, which has proven so far to be a reliable choice, much more stable than Design. I believe it was a year of further intelectual development, where I've read books by Sir Roger Scruton, got acquainted with Chesterton, read the excellent essay by Alex Epstein on Fossil Fuels, and much much more. I grew less ashamed of myself, and couldn't help on becoming more outspoken on my beliefs and convictions, which was a process going on since 2020 I believe, that fateful year of much distress. Health wise, it started with me getting the Corona, and it wrapped up with me getting the Corona once again, at the 2nd of December. Wow, the past few weeks have been something, I've lost a tooth in a bad fall on the chaotic sideways of my city, with everything that came with it, all the root canals and surgery. Then, my grandma had a seizure that we thought was something much more severe, a stroke. Then, I got Corona once again, at the 2nd of December. Still, overall, it was a calm year, we can't just wash away all the good things or neutral ones because awful events enrolled in. I made some of the best drawings I've worked on so far, so that is indeed good. I played a LOT of Europa Universalis, Anno 1800, and a bit of other games such as the late-released Victoria 3, that is a game I already included on my catalogue. I bought a lot of stuff, had to unfortunately deal with some refunds along the way, made good and bad decisions and ate lots of pizza and drank lots of coke, which the trends in medicine would argue are not good at all for you, but well, they do provide you with joyful moments. 4 years of blogging were celebrated in 2022! I didn't write much poetry at all, alas, neither have I written much stories, but well... We can't have fruitful moments all the time, and writing can be a pain, even Tolstoy, the celebrated Russian Writer said that, so I recall, when I read the preface to Anna Karenina, a book I never really finished. Some people hurt me unfortunately, and I'd rather that those bad situations haven't happened at all, not only concerning people but also concerning other aspects of my life, such as my fall. As Ayn Rand says: some stuff are just bad and they leave nothing but scars. There is nothing good about the natural state of humanity, which is poverty. Nothing good about being poor indeed, anbd nothing good about having someone breaking your heart, let alone lots and lots of people doing that. But I've made some good friends, too, that I truly hope may endure as 2023 unfolds.

I believe we should wrap this short retrospective, written all of improv and of course leaving a lot of stuff without being mentioned because I didn't recall them, with a best of Instagram picture, because the fall of Instagram almost happened this 2022, due to their bad management and decisions, such as trying to move on a TikTok direction, which I and many others hated (still do, because even if they backed down a bit, it was just an inch), censoring us that are not on the left of Marcuse, using their monopoly on picture sharing for evil things such as pushing for questionable at best progressive material - rendering their nickname Instagramsci. It isn't all bad, on Instagram I've saw some wonderful proper clothing material on vintage accounts that restore the art of dressing well, I've got in touch with songs I've loved. Concerning likes, not many of them, at all, and the problem of the bot-scam-pornographic content accounts is getting out of hand, but well... With that all, Instagram still is used by me, to post pictures and make new friends and connect with those with similar interest. Took them a bit of handling their mismanagement for me to return partially to that app I love to hate, but still use because the net is still (barely) positive. Here we have a picture that is from Christmas 2017, though I may be mistaken, could be of Christmas 2018, too, which means I may have posted before, because this one is a great picture, I think, one of my best. I hate posting duplicates, each post I want it to be unique, at least have new content for me and for you. I don't like repeating myself, but well... Will this be the last post of 2022? I want to write another one tomorrow, the 31st, but I rely a lot on my mood to write, so we shall see... If so, I'll see you again tomorrow, if not, I'll leave this at open and will come in the first days (hopefully the 1st) of January to wish a happy new year and talk a bit about the perspectives for 2023. I wish you the best once again, I truly appreciate you, cheers!!!