29

 This year I turned 29. It's the last year of my twenties! 

When I started this blog, I was a teenager. 

I can't say I learned very much in my twenties. You notice I didn't post at all in 2022. I learned a lot between 27-8. That, I think, was the worst period of my life. I learned way too much. You know how people say, after a difficult period, that they would rather not have had any other way. Well, I don't - I would rather not repeat that period ever again.

Most significantly, I learned that the person that I want to be is not very different from the person I was before. Or is it that people return to the habits of their past because they are familiar?

I think, however, that I am finally happy. Happy in a way that I wasn't earlier in my life because I felt held back by things in my life that I felt I couldn't control. Happy and at peace (most of the time).

I don't have many goals for this year. I'd like to do more art, travel to new places, develop and further friendships and relationships. And exercise and be generous and curious and all the other very stimulating and rewarding things. I'd like to read more philosophy. I think I fit in as a very small piece of this world and I'd like my small corner to be a good one.

I'm at a very lucky period in my life where things are going well.