January 25, 2025

So Far So Good

So tell me, how has 2025 been so far? It wasn’t that long ago that families were torn apart, and relatives were ready to bash each other’s heads in, all because everyone thought they were right. 

Looking back, it didn’t take much to disturb the waters. That thing we skeptically call a thin layer of culture and fine manners? Turns out it was thinner than we thought. I don’t even remember saying “Happy New Year” back then. I don’t even remember caring. I was numb. Disappointed. 

But then something magical happened. The fog slowly cleared and somehow we found our way home again. Some say we just got distracted by the next drama. “Look, a stick! A stick! Fetch the stick, stupid!” And all the little dinosaurs started running, ready to forget and do an ostrich. Maybe it’s better that way. 

Anyway, a couple of years went by, and here we are, living our lives in 2025. Like it was all a bad dream, Jennifer. Yesterday, I was watching Back to the Future 2. It was the year 2015: flying cars, hover boards, and a shark that still looked fake. No smartphones, though, and no social media either. Imagine that. 

It seems pretty pointless to predict the future. Who could’ve predicted our recent past? And who knows what 2025 has in store for us? Here’s my advice: don’t walk on eggshells. Show kindness—not out of fear, not out of duty to inclusivity or the climate, our new religion, but because you actually want to. I’ll give it a go. 

Wish me luck.

Blue

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Like it was all a bad dream.


3 comments:

  1. We never did get those hoverboards.
    Watched part of Blade Runner the other day. That's now set in a future that never happened.
    I am very hopeful for this year.

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  2. I’m hopeful, too. History always repeats itself and I see the pendulum swinging in the direction of common sense. Maybe I’ll be gone before it swings back the other way again.

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    1. This is your old friend, Bijoux. I changed my privacy settings and things went to hell.

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