In Which We Recall the good moments of some Happy Years

Good evening, my friend, reader of this present post! How are you, this December? How is the weather? I do wish you beautiful moments of Christmas! God bless you. As for me, I am... okay. It has been a chaotic end of year for a chaotic year. But I am okay, happy it is Christmas, one should try and do life business as usual. I still have my brain and some free time. Not much else. 

Good news is that this month, on the drawing front, has been more productive than November, and more drawings are on their way, I hope! Bad news is that not all places thrived, given I have not written as much as I would like. I cannot say this changes now, but I can write for today. I hope, coming 2026, that we can keep on writing, drawing, reading, playing the games we appreciate. At moments I feel exhausted, but for now, it is what it is. 

Do you have a particularly good christmas memory that you cherish? Or some element? I myself have plenty of good memories, not an entire cohesive day to point them our towards, but a happy atmosphere, sustained by the end year vacations. The whole special moment of ending the studying year, and go spend carefree days by grandma's house. The afternoon light with the videogames, I recall specially Anno 1404, Age of Empires 3, and on the golden 2012, Civ 5. The menace of having to do summer school because of my chronic failures in Mathematics and the study of my mother tongue, Portuguese, enhanced the feeling of deep relief, of having making it to the end, and looking forward for hopefully a happy 2013. I think the summer of 2010, its christnas season, was quite special, as it was the heydays of MSN, the browser games of those days, such was the jollity of being able to finally get online for the first time. To talk with friends in the vacation of those days, while before I could not, and even more aggravating than that, prior to 2009, having not many friends, if at all, to looking forward to seeing again. 

I did mention golden 2012, which I will not mention as the best year of my whole life, but definitely a great year of my teens. It was not done under auspicious circumstances, given Grandpa was near death, and we were so worried and grieving for his ailments. Still, I could play Civ 5, and other games, for as long as I'd desire, that was nearly a first. I think 2011 was another special one, given I watched my favorite show at the time on their website, and for the first time being able to understand English better. One could say the years of 2008 to 2013 were the height of my childhood, many many warts and all. There were many good things, such as Nintendo Wii times with the family, every year I could look forward on strengthening friendship ties with the people of my classroom. After many years of hostile grounds, I was in a time of much more tolerant and kind people around me, mostly charming girls that I made myself friends with, and was very very fond of. I could mention that this whole era of my life did crash down quite explosively in the end of 2013 and throughout 2014 as a whole, 2013 being one chaotic year for me, almost as exhausting as this present 2025 (in different ways), and 2014 being a gruesome annus horribilis for me, the high school years of 2014 to 2016 being a true lowpoint for me, where the gayety of childhood was taken away, for the deep deep melancholia of the late school. 

As we move on this second decade of the 21st century, for me, becomes harder to take apart what happened in each year exactly. Some moments, it all blends in, quite tragically. One reason to rejoice over Christmas and birthdays, christmas being the birthday of Jesus after all, they always return, so no matter if the year was bad or good, we can rely on the holidays. Those moments of relief, the cynical want to take away from humanity, and we must never let them win. How happy I am now that I recalled the good, not the bad, of past days. Much bad, but so much joy, too. The world was so vast, people had weight in my life, I could look forward to the christmas vacation, with afternoons by the beach, evenings at a good pizzeria. Just joy. What else is there to be said, but that at least Christmas was here, and is here now too, and shall continue to being. 

In the year of the A-Pop-Calypse, with so much hypersonically happening, for bad, for good, for worse, for to be seen if good or not, there is still Christmas, and I thank God for it, and I will not abdicate of my desire to be jolly on December. I hope you do not either. Thank you dear friend! And with those words I think I should wrap up today's post, and don't worry, I will be back, I desire to be back sooner rather than later, hopefully before the weekend. Until then, once again, Merry Christmas, once and once again!!!!