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2017 comes to Pikes Peak: the annual midnight show from my deck, 24 miles away, after a team makes the hard, two-day winter hike to the top with fireworks on their backs. Happy New Year! Sure hope it's an improvement over the last, which ranks as the worst year ever in my life.Ann wrote:Happy New Year, everybody!
Wow, I feel ya. I don't know your specifics, but my last month especially has been rather hard on me too. I don't know what the worst year ever in my life is. I'm definitely battling depression and filling up a newly created hole in my life with my Hubble hobby.Chris Peterson wrote:Sure hope it's an improvement over the last, which ranks as the worst year ever in my life.
We lost three pets in the last couple months. Two close friends died this year. Two more close friends are on their way out, probably this year. Brexit. The U.S. election. The increasing shift of the world towards Idiocracy.geckzilla wrote:Wow, I feel ya. I don't know your specifics, but my last month especially has been rather hard on me too. I don't know what the worst year ever in my life is. I'm definitely battling depression and filling up a newly created hole in my life with my Hubble hobby.Chris Peterson wrote:Sure hope it's an improvement over the last, which ranks as the worst year ever in my life.
I have sensed that you and Geck have been feeling low lately, but I thought it was "only" because of the outcome of the U.S. election. (Which is scary enough, I'll grant you that.)Chris Peterson wrote:We lost three pets in the last couple months. Two close friends died this year. Two more close friends are on their way out, probably this year. Brexit. The U.S. election. The increasing shift of the world towards Idiocracy.geckzilla wrote:Wow, I feel ya. I don't know your specifics, but my last month especially has been rather hard on me too. I don't know what the worst year ever in my life is. I'm definitely battling depression and filling up a newly created hole in my life with my Hubble hobby.Chris Peterson wrote:Sure hope it's an improvement over the last, which ranks as the worst year ever in my life.
Not the happiest of times.
Sorry about your mom. Mine's in pretty poor health... just the decline of age... she could live a few months or a few years. Not so easy to deal with. Like you, I'm not medically depressed, just not very happy with how things have been going, not very optimistic with where things are heading, and generally disappointed with much of the world. I'm glad I live in a place that is at least a little insulated from much of that, though.Ann wrote:I have sensed that you and Geck have been feeling low lately, but I thought it was "only" because of the outcome of the U.S. election. (Which is scary enough, I'll grant you that.)Chris Peterson wrote: Not the happiest of times.
My mother died in November this year, which was a big loss for me. I've been feeling a bit morbid after that, getting particularly hung up on the Carrie Fisher/Debbie Reynolds daughter/mother tragedy.
But I haven't had as many losses as you, Chris. I'm sorry for your losses. And I'm not, in a medical sense, depressed. I hope your Hubble hobby can help, Geck, for your sake and for every Hubble fan out there.
I know what that's like and I hope things get better for you, at least we all have astronomy.geckzilla wrote:Wow, I feel ya. I don't know your specifics, but my last month especially has been rather hard on me too. I don't know what the worst year ever in my life is. I'm definitely battling depression and filling up a newly created hole in my life with my Hubble hobby.Chris Peterson wrote:Sure hope it's an improvement over the last, which ranks as the worst year ever in my life.
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