assessment

[aesc]

I'm putting 2008 down as one of the worst years on record.

Everything's falling apart: the world, my mind, my focus, other things that are trivial but have become important to me because they've been safe things, safe places to go to, and I can't even count on them now. I'm sorry I've not been around or been much of a friend, but merely existing has been difficult lately, as has been mustering up the desire to keep existing. It's all falling spectacularly to pieces, and I don't have the energy to pick the damn things up anymore.

So I'm going to hide for a while, possibly forever.

*crawls into hole*

Comments

[aesc.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Thank you so much for your kind words. I was going over my general impressions of the Year on LJ and the year in the life of my family and friends, and it just seems like 2008 was really exceptionally sucky--a lot of people found themselves hit by a whole lot of bad luck. It was hard processing that, I think... I'm by no means a happy-go-lucky kind of person, but even thinking about what the people I know (whether IRL or online) have been through this year was hard.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

It does seem to have been pretty universally awesome. My favourite description came from metaquotes, and made me smile, hence passing it on:

It occurs to me that I am not going to kiss 2008 goodbye at midnight on the 31st.

I am going to drive a stake through its heart, cut off its head, fill its mouth with garlic and sanctified wafers, sew the mouth shut, and bury the head and the body separately at a crossroads.

2009 will be better, even if I have to beat it with a big stick to make it so *hugs back*