Teiran

2017 has come and gone...

Added 2018-01-01 22:00:59 +0000 UTC

Wow... wow. This year was...

Well. I don't think there's a real good way to describe how crazy this year was. Personal tragedy mixed with a society gone crazy, andprofessional trials to make one of the worst, longest, and yet fastest years I've ever had. I honestly hope I never see another like it.

2017 marks a year of transition for me.

My folks moved away, making this the first holiday season I won't spend with them.

I suffered real depression for the first time after losing someone close to me, a friend taken before her time.

One of the most stable things in my life, my weekly gaming group, radically changed when two of the four founding members left for good, moving across the state or into the great beyond respectively. 16 years of weekly meetups between the four of us came to a close in a bittersweet way, to say the least.

I'm 35 now, so statistically speaking I'm now in the back nine of my life, on that downward slope where all you can hope to do is keep yourself in the best shape possible and fill your days with things worth doing and remembering.

There were good parts to 2017, don't get me wrong. Some things were amazing, some of them caused by those of you reading this. I have a wonderful mate, and wonderful friends in my life. I have projects and hobbies galore, and never enough time to do them all.

I will carry on, and I will make 2018 a good year. I hope, in some ways, that my stories help make that true for all of you as well.

Thank you all for making this journey with me.

-Teiran