2025 In Review
This is not going to be a polished essay. It will be messy, spur-of-the-moment, and written with only making it to the next sentence in mind. In other words, it will be exactly the essay 2025 deserves. I don't think I've made it unknown to anyone that this year was incredibly difficult for myself, especially since fundamentally that is inaccurate. As far as I can tell, this year has been difficult for everyone, just as 2024 was, 2023 was, 2022 was, 2021 was, 2020 was, and so on, and so on, and so on... Most "year in review" type posts tend to focus on numerics. The best and worst albums, movies, events, moments, photos, videos, songs, ideas, all of it blurring into an approximation of the passage of time. I want this to be a kind of "anti-content", to be less about a clean and quantifiable metric for how this year was for myself and more of an argument that can be dissected and even opposed. In a year where the proliferation ...