Q8. Did this past year go as expected for you? What do you anticipate this year?

1 Jan

people love to look forward, make resolutions and plan out their goals for the new year, but I also think it’s good to take a look at the past year. sometimes it can make you realise that you are not where you want to be in life, like some of the answers here. but it can also push you and make you understand what your goals truly are.

For me, this year has flown. I can’t believe my youngest is about to sit her GCSEs in the summer I think that I have learned not to expect anything from life and just go with it. I think if you hope for life to go a certain way you will always be disappointed. no one has died and me and mine are well and so that is good enough for me
I hope next year is the same
No, I have been ill all the bloody time which has been annoying and a lot of things that have happened haven’t been planned at all. I have done GCSEs which was the biggest part of this year.
I don’t know what to expect next year other than more GCSEs and starting 6th form so I will see what happens as the year goes on
I no longer plan anything, as its utterly pointless at my age.
To book a holiday is pointless, as you'll wake up on the morning your going (if you're lucky) and fall out of bed and break your leg! But as I have wonderful memories of past holidays, it's of no matter.
Anticipate for next year? YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!
My dad's preferred sport was squash, So growing up he always tried to get me to enjoy it and I never did, so I am surprised that now I do. I was pretty much set on the notion of spending Christmas with my family. However the closer it got to the date the more I wanted to fuck off and go to my partner's country instead. The decision was frustrating me so I fucked the decision off and committed. And I had never been one to think about my jobs or future, what I'm gunna do, things like that, so to be fixed on the idea of being a bloody coppa is a surprising and exciting notion. Overall, a few things happened that I didn't expect and looking back they were almost all positive.
Next year will be the first full year since I can remember where I won't be a student. Who knows what wacky adventures will occur, anything is possible, the only limit is my imagination.
Last year was amazing for me made a massive jump in life, and all I can hope is everything plays out the way I have it going in my head.
Not at all, this time two years ago, I was planning to change my job and then live in another country for half of the year. Cut to this time last year, now living on my own, I decided to take a year to myself and consider what to do with my life. My job was secure but I still felt that maybe I could do something else with fewer hours and free up some extra time, only this time spend it here with family and friends. Cut to the present day and my job has totally changed, it has become too demanding for someone my age and is only going to get worse in the future, also I have been in a relationship for over half the year. So no the past year was not what I had expected, but it was a good year and I am happy and have learned a lot about myself.
As for the question, what do you anticipate for this year, what can I say other than more of the same please, the last six months have been full of fun and love and I feel very positive about what is to come in the future, also I have had the kick up the arse to get out of my job and find something else to do for a living, what that will be who knows?
My reply is pretty much hospital, clinic, and doctor appointments. Old age is a bitch. But lots of laughs and kindness along the way, with some coming from strangers when I'm out and about.
I go into the new year wondering! What the new year will bring. Hoping all will go well and pray I don't see the Russian and Ukraine war continue.
In spite of my age, I did manage holidays in Spain and played table tennis every week.
My expectation for next year is to just hope that at the age of 93, I won't deteriorate too much, so I can enjoy the year
The problem is I never really look or plan too far ahead, so its a bit difficult to say one way or the other, all I'm happy with about last year, is that nothing really bad or unexpected happened. I did enjoy my usual highlights of holidays away with the family, work was work and expectedly shit, as usual, the family are fit and healthy and we are close together so what more could I ask for, & a big shout out to my Mrs and daughter for passing their diploma and exams x.
For next year I wish for my youngest boy to have a lucky break in music, and be let loose on the roads, my daughter to pass her exams, my Mrs to be able to leave work and my eldest boy & family to all stay fit and healthy, I know I've gone off the expected theme a bit, but I would be very happy if nothing really bad happened, and my family were all ok.
truly didn’t know what to expect from this year but I definitely have not used the full potential of the year, I have disappointed myself and lost my main priorities for comforting things instead of flying out of my comfort zone. I am not happy with the progress I have made because I have wasted so many months not chasing my goals. it’s very frustrating but I have nobody to blame but myself.
Things are changing this year wish me luck.
At the start of this year, I had a plan to start planting the seeds that will hopefully turn into the main pillars of income and creative outlets. I figured that now is the time to really focus on making my job and hobbies the same thing. This website is the main one. But also smaller things like making connections with people, and getting a job to fund the creative shit I need to pay for, like cameras and things. Getting my foot in the doors of photography, music, and sound to film was a priority too.
I do think I have done most of the things I wanted, with the website and all the content being uploaded onto it. A few people that I have started working with that is looking promising and also I have gotten a job that is pretty good and doesn't get in the way of this, being a part-time job. I have started all these things but non of them is where I want them to be.
This new year will be a year of polishing and growing the seeds I have planted. As long as I keep watering them (uploading and working on them all equally and together) I think that I am in with a good chance to really get in a position where I can say that my hobbies and passions are my job. And while people say don't make them the same thing because it will ruin the hobbies, I really think it won't for me. I'm excited about this year, it’s looking very promising