My review of 2018
Usually when I do an annual review of my life, I end up writing a long essay about all of the meaningful moments of the year. However, this time, I am going to do things a little differently. Instead of the essay style description of what has happened to me during the year, I am going to put all of my experiences of the year in 2 categories. "Gifts" and "Lessons". The gifts are things that I have directly benefited from in some way and the lessons are things that I have learnt from the course of the year.
Gifts
- A greater understanding of Yoga and the benefits of Yoga.
- A greater level of self-value.
- A heightened ability to deal with difficult people.
- A better understanding of my own family.
- A greater resistance to physical pain.
- A greater understanding of Shogi.
- Weight loss mainly due to a vegan diet
- Winning the online Shogi title of "10th Purple Dragon".
- A second consecutive whole calendar year without an asthma attack.
Lessons
- People can get emotional about other members of a family.
- There are many people in the world who have a rather "black and white" view on how the world should be.
- Mothers are eternally emotional beings.
- Women are generally more emotional than men.
- There is no point in fearing failure
- Japanese is a complicated language with a lot of "half definitions" and "context"
- I often struggle to deal with cold and flu symptoms.
- I still struggle with anxiety.
