Ok forgive me because I am going to the land of no Internet so I will post this now even though it is somewhat premature.
When I started this decade I was fifteen years old. Fuck. It feels more like twenty years have passed rather than ten and I am guessing you guys feel the same.
I was also still living in Spain and it would be another year or so before I left my mother there and returned back to England to finish my education which I had been pulled out of three years before. I would crown that the best decision I have made this decade. Nice one 16 year old me!
In this decade I finished my GCSEs, A-levels, went to Uni, changed majors, graduated and re-enrolled for more which is due to be complete in the beginning of the new decade which is a good way to start it I think. I also met some of the best people a person could ever hope to meet. One of whom would cause a lot of pain but that is just part and parcel of learning right?
I think it would be the decade of learning for me because I did so much of it. I look forward to learning more.
It was the decade of Internet, computers and discovering just how much of a nerd I can be. I also went to some of the most beautiful places in the world and the next decade promises so much more of that.
I worked as a bar maid, store assistant, life guard, chef, waitress, cashier and an estate agent (among others) and I cheated death a few times.
I climbed, caved, hiked, rode, cycled, ran and discovered a love for TKD and squash.
There were many low moments but, looking back, I think the highs outweighed those, and I hope I can say that again at the end of the next decade.
I lost a best friend. I hope more than anything I will not lose another.
Looking back I am proud of the last ten years. I think the majority of the decisions I made were the right ones and I wouldn’t change any of them..except maybe to tell myself to stop worrying so much about money and travel more. Again, I hope at the end of the next decade I can be proud of my decisions.
So, on to a new decade. I hope the last one was a good one overall for you? I hope that we can all say that the next one is good when it closes.
Thats a lot of accomplishment! In the last ten years I… Uh… Hmmm… Well, at some point I suffered from complete amnesia. I’d say that from 2010-2020 would be the decade of writing stuff down, but seeing as I’m about to become older than Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones or Janis Joplin ever managed, I think the next decade will be taken one day at a time.
I can’t wait though, now that the date can be pronounced as twenty ten etc, we are officialy living in the distopian future that sci fi has always promised! Roll on daily alien invasions, and bi-annual apocolypses (lol, they really didnt design that word to be pluralised).
Comment by Tom — December 24, 2009 @ 12:34 pm