Theme of the Year 2022?
Date: 2022-12-08
Got my Lego 13 days ago, and I barely looked at the brown box (has the nice Lego on it even). Sometimes I really want to just open it, and build. Lego is just the perfect game for everyone. I don't even ordered some bigger ones. Just 3 smaller ones. Will definitely post pictures here, or my new pixelfed account (more on that later).
To be honest this fits into the theme of the year for me: less computer time, more doing things outside of it. Well I don't know if I spent less time typing. But I definitely spent more time outside of it. Being more physical, getting my hands dirty. xD I didn't make new year's oath or anything like that. I didn't make any goals (outside of book reading), it's just happened this way, and I am very happy with it! ;-)
In February I started doing yoga. Again, not for other people to see me better or become more attractive physically, but just for myself. For my health. And I am still doing it daily, December will be the 10th month. I posted some about my experience, I didn't want to repeat much, but it definitely healed my right arm to the extent that I can use it without pain, which wasn't possible the last 6 years. It healed so much that my goal is to do a pullup by the end of the year. Sadly I am not there yet, so this is why I started lifting weights…
I just love doing weights. Different world to yoga, sometimes clashing bodybuilders and weightlifters don't want to be flexible, but of course both worlds benefits each other. Many yoga movements, uses your bodyweight and I certainly become stronger. I like doing weights cause it's different. Working on different parts of my body, just so satisfying. Just being stronger, not struggling in my daily life, is so important. I am proud of my progress and others around me see it as well. No, I will still not post pictures online.
I also improved my gardening skills, and just love get my hands dirty. Just as with everything, people overcomplicate things to the point, that they give up after a few days or weeks, if it's not going well. Start small. Take care a plant. But don't be this one, hehe. Except if you want to build it. :-)
My book reading project wasn't fully successful, but I don't think I have failed. Reading 38 books out of 52 is still a good rate, especially that in the past decade (or two) I rarely read anything, other than webpages. I started this as a reprogramming experiment, to get away from computer more, and I loved it!
The only thing I neglected is my offline journal, and writing with fountain pens. Strangely there were months when I didn't wrote online either. In November I thought I am going to delete this website, cause I just didn't know what to do. Right now I am doing these posts, and who knows how long? Probably shouldn't care that much. I am enjoying brain dumps. Sometimes it starts as a fediverse post, and just copy and continue writing in Emacs. This is also a mindshift. Changing my relationship with writing.
Anyway, this was a weirdly good year for me, after having depression in 2020 and 21, this is a welcome change into my life. No wonder when I minimized my only presence by not reading the news that much, not being active on fedi and taking a big break from twitch in the second part of year. I made the biggest change in my life.
Let's hope for some similar good changes in 2023! (no this is not my last post in 2022, just feel like writing about it)
