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Anyone feel done with 2022

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Ithurtbad · 05/10/2022 03:11

I am feeling a little low I suppose so much has happened this year and for me it's just been one thing after another.

I'm thinking roll on 2023 can't take much more.

Anyone feeling this way?

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JJsdadisatwat · 05/10/2022 03:44

Yes.

To be honest, I am already done with 2023 too. Life is, and has always just been one awful thing after another all out of my control.

I’m sick of it. i’m constantly waiting for the next bad thing to happen.

aDayattheLido · 05/10/2022 03:48

Not me.
I never expect life to run smoothly.

JlL2013 · 05/10/2022 03:50

Yep all I wanted was a quiet non eventful year. What I got was a cancer diagnosis (a treatable one, but hardly quiet and uneventful)

grapehyacinthisactuallyblue · 05/10/2022 04:21

No. I just don't think just because new year has come, everything will be better. It doesn't work like that, does it? If something bad happened in January, is the year over for you?
We still have 3 months left, things might turn better, you never know. Stay positive

Oblomov22 · 05/10/2022 04:49

No. I don't look at it that way. There's still 3 months left, so 1/4 still to go. I don't see years as bad years.

Venuz · 05/10/2022 04:57

It's autumn, it's cosy, there's the world Cup which I have loads of tickets for, I'm healthy and have a job. I don't wish time away, I've been to too many funerals in the last few years since the NHS stopped working, young people with ovarian cancer mainly who would have been happy with a bonus 3 months. Be careful what you wish for and if you don't like it, change it.

Venuz · 05/10/2022 04:58

JJsdadisatwat · 05/10/2022 03:44

Yes.

To be honest, I am already done with 2023 too. Life is, and has always just been one awful thing after another all out of my control.

I’m sick of it. i’m constantly waiting for the next bad thing to happen.

I remember being like this, it's such a UK disease of being so angst ridden. It's such a waste of life, its a shame you can't see that.

Idyllicidealist · 05/10/2022 05:08

I used to be terrible at wishing time away but I'm in my 60's now and am learning to enjoy every day.
Our house has subsided 12mm this year. I live in a country where the insurance won't pay unless the government declares a natural catastrophie.
I've decided the house won't fall down and will see us out and then its the dc's problem.

I've also read the thread of the pp who's dh has leukaemia.
I have a fantastic life and much to be thankful for.

HelpMeGetThrough · 05/10/2022 05:46

I was done with 2022 in February, I've had months of hell and don't think it's going to get much better.

I'm quite happy for every year from now on to do one.

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Ithurtbad · 05/10/2022 06:51

JlL2013 · 05/10/2022 03:50

Yep all I wanted was a quiet non eventful year. What I got was a cancer diagnosis (a treatable one, but hardly quiet and uneventful)

@JlL2013

So sorry to hear

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Ithurtbad · 05/10/2022 06:53

Thanks all.

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Venuz · 05/10/2022 06:56

It's probably all going to be over soon anyway, the way things are going. Nukes in the rest of the world, the NHS in the UK and winter covid. May as well make the most of what's left.

StapFooterin · 05/10/2022 06:58

Shit just seems to happen on a rolling year as far as I'm concerned. So the arbitrary pinpointing of January 1st as a new start means very little to me!

Bestcatmum · 05/10/2022 06:59

I've had a lot worse decade's than this one and got through. I try to see the positive and count my blessings. I've coped with meditation, counselling and working hard. We'll get through just hang on in there. Providing Putin doesn't get nuclear bomb happy and if he does all of our problems will be over anyway.

ladywithnomanors · 05/10/2022 07:08

Oblomov22 · 05/10/2022 04:49

No. I don't look at it that way. There's still 3 months left, so 1/4 still to go. I don't see years as bad years.

What a positive way to look at things. I’m just coming out of a deep depression after several bereavements over the last few months. I’m finally turning a corner. I should use the fest on of this year as a start as I mean to go on into next year .

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Ithurtbad · 05/10/2022 07:15

Maybe it just will get better but not looking forward to Christmas.
I turn 40 this year a baby on the way so excited for that.
I didn't expect my MIL to pass away. Or some other people.
It's just certain thing triggered some stuff in the past.
I suppose I have had worst years too.

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LunaAndHerMoonDragons · 05/10/2022 07:16

Nope I'm planning an acrimonious divorce. Not the acrimonious bit, but given what STBXH has been like the last couple years I can't see it being anything but.

HighlandPony · 05/10/2022 07:17

Nah. Don’t think 2023 has much hope either so I’m not rushing into it like some giddy teenager. This year was just as shite as last year and the next one will be too. I’ve got what I need at home so why sweat it

mellongoose · 05/10/2022 07:24

It's a mindset though, isn't it.

When you're grieving, it feels never ending. Then one day, the green shoots of joy start to return.

My job is like walking through treacle, whilst dodging enemy aircraft at the moment (no, I can't change it and it should be better than this. Will be again hopefully). I'm an optimist.

My family and I have our health. I take joy from DC. Love where I live. Am enjoying the changing of the season.

I should watch less news and stay off Twitter. Life is much better then!!!

TigerRag · 05/10/2022 07:34

Yes. Absolutely awful year. Will be glad to see the back of it

AprilShowers23 · 05/10/2022 07:37

Absolutely. Started the year with a miscarriage, followed by covid, then work stress, couldn't move house, then a bereavement, now I'm ill again.
That's without all the stuff on the news!

Venuz · 05/10/2022 07:40

It's been a brilliant year for me. But that's probably because I don't live in the UK. Oil prices rising for me has actually increased my salary by about 40% and 100% compared to 2007. I have health insurance and joy in my life and apart from rotten menopause tears, it's been my happiest year. It's been full of love and passion and reward.

ItsHitTheFanNow · 05/10/2022 07:41

JlL2013 · 05/10/2022 03:50

Yep all I wanted was a quiet non eventful year. What I got was a cancer diagnosis (a treatable one, but hardly quiet and uneventful)

Snap 🙁

notdaddycool · 05/10/2022 07:44

It would save money, shipping all family birthdays but mine and Christmas, but no, I love the run in to Christmas. I would happily lose the bit between Christmas and new year though!!

JJsdadisatwat · 05/10/2022 08:49

Venuz · 05/10/2022 04:58

I remember being like this, it's such a UK disease of being so angst ridden. It's such a waste of life, its a shame you can't see that.

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It wouldn’t matter where I was in the world.

I would still be living a half life dealing with my father and his dementia and all the horrific red tape that comes with it.
I would still be ill.
I would still be trapped in a place where people smoke drugs outside my door and graffiti my property.

I could go on. It’s not angst ridden. I’ve got a really shit life and those three things aren’t even the worst that is going on or the worst of what has happened to me.

I used to be positive. I used to think i will get through this next thing, just like I’ve done before but over the last decade, it’s all kept on coming, more and more and the resilience has been drained from me.

Swap with me for a week.

Its not a U.K. tbing. I couldn’t give a crap about what’s happening with the news, government. I’ve got too many of my own problems to care.