If you think years are nothing but number....

.....why it changes so dramtically from year to year???? When u thought nothing worst then 2003, here comes 2005......i was hopeing it gets better but its seem just getting worst and worst and i'm in the middle of one of the worst month...... and thinking of it i never conforntated with my family before and may well endup something....

So how comes a year make so much different??. I mean i had really good year last year, well at least best in long time and which brought me back in track... And this year from the begning i know its going to be trouble year... but i had hope its get better too... well...

Anyone experenced that???. Like a year or a particular instance just change everything...??

I suppose last year for me was a pretty drastic change, since high school I'd had this vision of becoming an architect and that being my life, though I obviously didn't think about it enough. Last year, after a year of studying, I realized it wasn't for me and changed course.

There was a time there last year when I was quite down because I didn't really know what I was going to do, I didn't have any backup plans so I had to look and think what I wanted, though I wasn't sure for a while.

After a year now though, having changed course and completed, and more importantly enjoyed a full year of study I am finally happy. I've found something I enjoy and I'm good at it too, and it's the first time in a while that I've experienced that. Also, due to something else, I am quite happy too, even after finishing Uni for summer. I don't think I've been quite as content as I have been this year.


Things can change for the worse, I think it depends on how you can look back on it and learn from it that can make you adapt, there is some positive in everything, even if you can't see it until afterwards.

So much can happen in a year and sometimes it feels as if time just stands still, '03 and '04 feel like a blur to me but the past few months have been better and I kinda feel time now more then I did before.

I guess you just have to remember that nothing in life worth having comes easy.


Phil

I thought 2003 was the worse year of my life, but err... 2005 is not over yet, and it hasnt been much good till now (with exceptions of course). Theres good and bad all the time, u say it's being a bad year for you and i believe so, but i'm sure theres good things you'll remember about 2005 as well

... and I just thought I wrote that myself...

Last year was a year of many drastic changes - quit my architecture course, even though I always thought I would become an architect. I started with a Multimedia course in february and I love it. In the summer I felt like going away from everyone for a while, so that's exactly what I did and went to the USA. I had the best summer. I started with rowing and things went very well, I was invited for a national uni championship as almost the only first year rower and to me that was a great achievement. And at the end of the year I came close to the guy I'm together with now. So yeah, last year was the best!

This year doesnt come close to last year. My grandmother died (although it was long expected, it still came as a shock to me); I had to quit the rowing because of wrist injuries, I hated to stop something I was good at just because my body just couldn't handle it. And I'm having more and more problems with my motivation at uni and that sucks. But well... in a week from now all my exams are done and holidays have started! So that's at least one thing I'm looking forward to !

I quit my architecture course to study multimedia too lol

lol

Someone read this about time management so I looked it up to post it here:



To realize the value of TEN YEARS, ask the newly divorced couple.

To realize the value of FOUR YEARS, ask the college graduate.

To realize the value of A YEAR, ask a student who has failed his final exam.

To realize the value of A MONTH, ask a mother who's given birth to a premature baby.

To realize the value of A WEEK, ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.

To realize the value of A DAY, ask a daily wage laborer who has bills to pay.

To realize the value of A HOUR, ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.

To realize the value of A MINUTE, ask a person who has missed the train.

To realize the value of A SECOND, ask a person who has survived an accident.

To realize the value of A MILLISECOND, ask the person who won the silver medal in the Olympics.

I dunno, I try to keep negativity out of my life as much as possible so I'm never really down and never look back and think, man those times were hard.

Not to say I'm blessed or nowt, just over a year ago I had dropped out of my 2nd consecutive uni course, had just dumped my girlfriend, cut ties with a handful of friends, was lookign at the possibility of having a criminal record, had just been fired and generally gave my mum alot to worry about last summer.

Now I've got a brilliant job I actually look forward to going to, I've been told by several different people that I'm much nicer to be around since I've been single less aggresive n whatnot, plus all the fun that goes with being single, I'm doing a uni course I genuinely like and enjoy going to, I can appreciate the friends i still have even more, no police record I hit the gym hard after things started getting back on track and I'm in the best shape I've been in years amongst other things.

So it's a pretty dramatic change but I don't look back and think wow lasts ummer sucked balls because it didn't really. I think it all depends how you deal with and handle things. It's like gigs, if you never do a bad gig, the good ones are just good, if you have a horrible one, it makes all the good ones after even sweeter.

I just see it all as a learning experience.

Becky, I loved that text you posted. So true

Allwyn - I'm not liking 2005 at all. It started off badly and it continues getting worse and worse, at least family-wise. I was hoping June, being the month in the middle, would mark a turn for the better and now you know how things stand Now I'm hoping at least August, which I have been looking forward to since February or so will be as good as I'm imagining it will be. I really need it to be.

2004 was a fantastic year so I guess I'm inwardly comparing both, but I don't know, this year is being awful. But things will have to get better at some point, won't they?!