Spoke in Class Today
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Spoke in Class Today
Episode - 23: The Seasons of Change and New Beginnings
Reflecting on the year 2025, I find myself at the crossroads of excitement and introspection. As I recount the rollercoaster of emotions from 2024, including the heart-wrenching loss of my father and my own journey through hernia surgery recovery, I realize how these personal moments have reshaped my outlook on life's unpredictability. As I talk through these experiences, I also consider the larger societal shifts looming on the horizon—like the potential political upheavals with Trump's possible return. Turning 50 and seeing my sons step into adulthood are milestones that have heightened my awareness of the passage of time and the inevitable cycles of life. Despite everything, I hold onto optimism, ready to embrace growth and the new opportunities that lie ahead.
I also find myself pondering the intriguing question of why January, with its cold and quiet demeanor, marks the start of our calendar year, instead of the vibrant and warm month of July. This cultural oddity piques my curiosity, and with an impending relocation, I hope to explore these musings more deeply. As this episode unfolds, it serves as both a personal reflection and a welcoming embrace of the new year, 2025. My hope is that listeners will connect with these thoughts and find their own moments of self-reflection amidst the simplicity of life's ever-turning pages.
5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Well, hello, hello, Happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy new year. Well, hello, hello, Happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy new year. It's a new year, 2025. God damn, 2025. Crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy. Never would have thought, never would have seen it coming, I guess, to ever get to this point in my life To be sitting here at 2.20 am on New Year's morning having my last joint of the night or day or start of the day or whatever the fuck it is, and sitting here just talking to you guys. 2024 is over. It's done.
Speaker 1:It was a weird one, that's for sure. A lot of wild stuff went on, man, it's hard to say, hard to really truly believe it all. You know, we live in this weird reality Of so much that's going on, so many different things to try to pay attention to, so many different things to try to understand and see if it's real or not real. It's hard to keep up on it all you question so much nowadays. It's so wild, but I wouldn't want to be in it any other time, although I feel that I should have been born in a different time, a different era of time. You know, I'm glad I've been this era, considering how things were, but I'm scared of what's coming towards us, in a way. I'm excited though too.
Speaker 1:That's the fucked up thing, I don't know. 2025, here we go, let's get it done, big things coming. 2024 started off kind of rough. Dad died, you know, kind of unexpected but expected Wasn't sure when. Yeah, kind of you know. It's one of those things where I'm glad it happened, not to be cynical, but because the state that he was in so had hernia surgery at the beginning of the year last year. So I'm almost to a year off of that hernia surgery at the beginning of the year last year, so I'm almost to a year off of that, you know. Just all the other craziness that went on, I mean, I think after my dad died tried to gather things back up with, you know, getting off of recovery from hernia surgery and just dealing with the death of him.
Speaker 1:All of those emotions were just running through, had my ups and downs, a lot of weird thoughts, a lot of weird ideas. Tried to implement as much as I possibly could, tried to follow my brain as much as I thought I needed to. Sometimes my thoughts just don't lead me in the right direction. Sometimes they lead me in a good direction. Sometimes they make me go down this direction and I get really fucking confused and eventually I figure it out. Things clear up. I see signs of what I need to do, where I need to go, what I need to be doing, or well, I guess I've already said that.
Speaker 1:So, as crazy and as hectic and as shitty as this last year was, I'm sure some people had better years. Everybody has those years Everybody's got. You know, there are certain things, certain people out there, that say that they had a good year or not, or whatever else, and they look forward to the next year, they look forward to getting rid of the year before and move on to the next. But then it's kind of the same pattern over and over, you know, shooing away the bad and bringing in the new. I mean, it's just one of those things. It's that repetitive nature of what we do that, I've noticed. So what I'm trying to get to is, I guess, regardless of what happened to you this past year, what's going to go on for you this next year? We're all here together and I think we need to learn more from that, more from what was going on, more from what could happen, more from what is about to go. I don't know, I've got good feelings about it. In some ways, I've got mixed emotions about the whole situation of everything that's going on in our state, in our state of our union, with what's happening here in the United States, what could possibly turn out to be, with Trump coming back in, is it going to be good, is it going to be bad? We'll find out here in about 20 days on what stirs up.
Speaker 1:But this next year 2025, let's bring it in, let's welcome it. It's going to be a big year for me. A lot going on, hopefully. Well, regardless, I'm going to be moving, not that you care where I'm at now or where I'm going to be headed, but it's going to be my piece. I have figured it out. That's part of what my turmoils have been for this last year my ups and downs Trying to figure out my next step, because this year I turned 50. So that's another big milestone for me, one that I never would have thought that I ever would have achieved, and I still may not. I may not hit that mark. Things may go awry, I may step out the door and slip and hit my head. No clue, no clue. But I'm going to look forward to that day and change that number.
Speaker 1:You know that number that ever-demilitating number of 50. It's kind of wild. Think about the people and the times that I've outgrown, the things that I've been through, the things that I've seen, the things that I've experienced. 50 years of it almost Well figure 46 years Memory around the time that I start, you know if I have memories back to when I was about four, but you know, so you figure that amount of time of having thoughts and seeing things and remembering those things, excuse me. So my older son he's going to be turning 21. That's a big milestone for everybody. My younger son he's going to be turning 20. So I will no longer have associations with teenagers or have that in my life, in my family. I guess that's an interesting thought as well.
Speaker 1:The processing of having a 21-year-old and a 20-year-old Just wild. I mean, I can't believe this last 20-something years of having kids, of being a father, has just gone by so fast and it's nothing that I've never, ever wanted to take back. I wish I could go back and watch it again, just to see it, to see it from the outside, to understand it more. So, but I don't know. There was more that I was going to say and more that I wanted to say, but I think I lost my train of thought with it and I just I just wanted to get on and reflect for a minute about the last year. You know the crazy neighbor that I had, the crap that went down with that and all the rest of everything else. You know the all the shit that goes on in our world and the conspiracies, the weirdness of things, these, whatever. But we've traveled another year around the sun together. We've traveled another year around the sun together.
Speaker 1:Why they decided in January and not July to be the beginning of the year. I don't. I wish I knew what was the cause? Why January to be the beginning? Why this time of the year for us? Who made the decision to start it, the counting of it of that time, and why do I? Those are all just oddities that I don't know much about and I would like to learn about them. But I've always had too much other shit going on to really concentrate on my thoughts and my questions to really get answers. I'm going to change that because this next year where I'm going to be moving to is going to allow me that time and that opportunity to really get more depth of my thoughts.
Speaker 1:Well, folks, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy new year. It's 2025. Enjoy it. Hopefully you're not too hungover when you listen to this Not that you're going to be listening to this much, because nobody's listening to it, so fuck off. It's more for me right now. I guess just to hear my voice you know it's how much I'm in love with myself I guess just to want to listen to myself talk. All right, I'll let you guys go, take care.