2018 · 2:21am Dec 4th, 2018
I am not one to speak about my issues in public. I am not one to fish for sympathy. But this is something I want to vent.
We all have our ups and downs. We have good days and bad days. Sometimes, we have too many bad days in a row. These can lead into bad weeks or even bad months. But for me, this is more than that. While still a few weeks shy from ending, I can say without a shadow of a doubt that 2018 has been the worst year of my life. While the first three months went by well enough, everything has been in a downward spiral since April. Ranging from good events turned mediocre or even disastrous, family and friend problems, petty yet frustrating inconveniences, and all manner of crap that is outside my control. It feels like that for every one thing that went right for me, one or two bad things happened immediately afterward. And I feel like I’m less of a man for The Lost Element having become more of a source of escapism for me as a result of my misfortunes.
2018 has been a year of misfortunes, unfortunate developments, crap that didn’t need to happen, and good things coming to an end. This has been a dark year for me and I can only hope that 2019 turns things around.
To hell with you, 2018. You will not be missed.
Best of luck with 2019!
I know the feeling. My wife left me for another and I was, well you can't be reliably be diagnosed with it, but I have CTE. There is no treatment for it so I'm screwed, but like you I have the same sentiment when it comes to this year.
If Pinkie was here, she'd say something like, "Never stop Smiling.
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Its weird, yet almost about every year is a bad one, this I agree is one of the worst, but we all hope that next year is not as bad. Or hopefully a good one. But if another bad one, well... you decide who to blame.
Hang in there Bro., you are not the only one with a bad year, many of us have it too.
Hello 2019 and forget you 2018!
2018 the worse year since 2017
I've noticed that this year has been one of bad events for a lot of people that I know and that I don't know. It's really rather crappy.
During May and June I was hospitalised for pneumonia, then discharged without being properly checked after I was given a dose of antibiotics via IV. Three days after discharge I was rushed to emergency again, via ambulance this time because I was incapable of drawing enough oxygen and was on the verge of total blackout. My lung had collapsed and the plural cavity was entirely filled with infected fluid full of live bugs.
It was really scary and while I didn't realise at the time, I was told later by a kind doctor who was checking on me when I got moved to ICU ( even though he was an ER doctor ) that he was amazed I had stayed conscious and coherent during the initial arrival, and that I was even alive with how little blood and oxygen my brain was receiving.
I'm crippled now because of it, most of that lung died because surgery to fix it was too risky so we had to play the drug and wait game... The rest of the year was filled with a ton of other little things that just add up at the end of the day.
We all feel you, shit gets really hard and nasty sometimes and its not just you suffering this year... its a bad year for some cosmic reason I guess.
Hang in there though, there's always hope for a better tomorrow!
For some people, a year can be good for others be bad (even traumatisingly bad).
As for me, I have been stuck with an outdated iPhone and a s**tty laptop for months, because not only my former iPhone went into a comatose state due to connection interruption during an iOs update, but also a USB in my motherboard shortcircuted soon after and whole motherboard went to s**t. As a result, I can't play any new games (performance is extremely choppy and when I tried to increase the graphics quality in one of my games to 100%, it literally crashed the video card(!) in that s**tty laptop of mine) and use some of the apps on the outdated iPhone.
Now, I am still waiting for a new (read unpacked) old motherboard (shipped from China), because if I were to buy a new model I would be forced to change a lot of components in my PC which is something I cannot afford right now.
On the other hand, I finally got a (non-agency) job at a company that I wanted to work at after 3 tries. It may not sound as a big achievement, but I wanted to get to a specific branch and if you fail the assessment, you have to wait for a bit until they will post a job advertisement again, and if you fail the interview, you have to wait for 6 months(!) before you can try again at any branch. But the worst part is that they don't even tell you what you did wrong so you don't even know what you need to get better at in order to pass!
But once you get in you will apprecate how the job is well payed, self-paced (finish early = leave early & stay as long as you need to finish it) and employees can get a lot of support from company's services and their own workers' union.
In conclusion: it was a pissy, yet successful year for me.
I’m so relatable with Humanity’s life going in a downward spiral in 2018, although unlike family issues with Humanity, for me it was a mental health disorder. In June 2018, I began to suffer from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and was plagued by intrusive thoughts that dominated my life. But in 2020 I got the right kind of therapy I needed, and was relived of my Pure O by March 2021. Haven’t been plagued by intrusive thoughts since, and my life has been improving since then. But I hope there’ll come a time for improvement in Humanity’s life someday.