As always, I use my birthday as an opportunity to reminisce on the previous year of my life.
The year started with my 3 months trip around the world, which I can’t properly sum up in this short post, but I’ll try anyway: on that trip I met friends almost in every country I visited (one of those friends I’ve known for over 10 years but met for the first time in real life), made some new friends, had tons of fun and many adventures, including thinking I was going to die after losing my way in a snow covered national park, a powerful experience to say the least.
As part of the trip I got to see The Prodigy, my favorite band that released a new album in the meantime, 4 times live in the UK with two good friends. I got to see them twice more after that in Turkey and in Prague for a total of 6 times this year and 9 times during my lifetime. On top of that I’m going to see them two more times in Paris this April.
I also experienced quite a bit of grief from a relationship I hoped would go somewhere but didn’t – something started exactly one year ago, right before the trip, with a girl I was really into (aka Girl 1). I wanted things to restart when I came back but she was no longer interested and later in the year moved on to be with someone else. Unfortunately I fell, yet again, into the friend zone trap and only lately have started letting go of the hopes I had for that relationship. It’s still work in progress, which makes this birthday a little bitter, but all in all it’s been a great year.
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