Change, lots of change this year. This year can be summed up in that quote from Han. There were a lot of moving pieces in my life, and some of those changes will carry on aftershocks into 2022, but I am ready for them.
Biggest change of all, I finally did it, I moved out of Utah. By the time I wrote my 2020 reflection I already knew I was leaving Utah, I had picked the move out date in November, I just didn’t tell anyone outside of my immediate family because of how COVID changes everything. Nothing is guaranteed, and if anything that was exacerbated even further in 2021.
Moving brought a lot of unwanted changes, good and bad. I can go on and on about what was good and bad, but I am going to keep it short and sweet. A co-worker asked me one day when I moved here what is worse than I expected, and better than expected in SF. When he asked me, I had only been here a few weeks, so my answer was not accurate. A few months later I reached out and said hey I lied here are the real answers:
- Worse than expected from the move to SF? The noise of a bustling city. My room is right in the front of the building of a corner street that isn’t too busy, but at 6 am you’ve got the garbage truck rolling in, street cleaners after, and upstairs neighbors walking around. So I am abruptly waken up everyday except Sundays.
- Better than expected from the move to SF? How much I missed living near the ocean in a coastal city. I grew up my whole life near iconic water fronts. Northeast Jersey has arguably one of the most beautiful cityscape waterfronts in the US, and Santo Domingo is home to the first European establishment in the Americas.
This year was definitely better than 2020 for me, but not as productive. I ended up dropping out of my master’s program, not reading as much, and not blogging as much as I did in 2020. However, this was my most active year by far, I feel in great physical shape, been eating just as healthy as I did in 2020, and have been meeting lots of great people out here in the bay. I do have a plan for turning around the reading and blogging, but school, I am done with that for now. I need a break, a well deserved break, I want to focus on my overall mental and body strength and build those up even more.
Here’s to 2022!
Highlights
- Memorable Moment: My trip to New Jersey in May 2021. I always love going back to NJ, someday I might even end up living there or in NYC in the future, who knows. But I got to see my family, all of them, for the first time since the pandemic began, and also got to see my father, who I hadn’t seen in over six years (longest we’ve gone).
- Worse moment: When I discovered Champ had an infected dog bite
- Song of the year: Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton
- Most Laughs: Karaoke with my friends from Utah in SF — specially the videos afterwards
- 2021 in one word: Change