40 questions from 2025
1. What did you do this year that you’d never done before?
Seek inner spiritual and emotional connection.
2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions?
I don’t do resolutions so I guess I did not.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Yes. My sister-in-law. Beautiful twins.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Yes, a dear uncle.
5. What cities/states/countries did you visit?
6. What would you like to have next year that you lacked this year?
Good health and inner peace.
7. What date(s) from this year will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
The day I had to go trough an urgent open heart surgery.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Train calistenics and gain strength.
9. What was your biggest failure?
I started more or less at the bottom so it was mostly going up for me. I don’t recall anything I’d call failure.
10. What other hardships did you face?
Couple issues, PTSD, anxiety, panic attacks, insomnia.
11. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Yes. See 7 above.
12. What was the best thing you bought?
A very simple case for my phone.
13. Whose behavior merited celebration?
My girlfriend’s.
14. Whose behavior made you appalled?
Also my girlfriend’s.
15. Where did most of your money go?
Maintaining myself.
16. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Getting healthy and getting good test results.
17. What song will always remind you of this year?
Something Beautiful from Robbie Williams’ movie, Better Man
18. Compared to this time last year, are you: happier or sadder? Richer or poorer? Healthier or unhealthier?
Happier, richer and healthier.
19. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Reading, meditation and excercise.
20. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Eating and drinking things I don’t need nor enjoy that much.
21. How are you spending the holidays?
Family.
22. Did you fall in love this year?
Maybe.
23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
No. I don’t do hate.
24. What was your favorite show?
25. What was the best book you read?
26. What was your greatest musical discovery of the year?
27. What was your favorite film?
28. What was your favorite meal?
Something with rice noodles, meat and cooked veggies that doesn’t have a name but my girlfriend invented.
29. What did you want and get?
Answers.
30. What did you want and not get?
Peace of mind.
31. What did you do on your birthday?
The best pool party ever.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
I think it would be not having to go through the health issues and surgery.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion this year?
Slim.
34. What kept you sane?
My book, my two therapists, practising presence, physical excercise, my girlfriend, my best friend and my father, my mother, my brother and his children whom I love.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you admire the most?
I can’t think of one right now, I don’t watch tv or read news or anything.
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
None. I grew tired of politics.
37. Who did you miss?
Don’t recall having that feeling.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
One of my therapists. The spiritual one. The other one is awesome as well but the quesion asked for one.
39. What valuable life lesson did you learn this year?
Health comes before anything. It’s priority number 1. By far.
40. What is a quote that sums up your year?
The world is full of people suffering from the effects of their own unlived life.
- Carl Yung
Thank you for reading.
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