My review of 2018

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.