Computer learning, human psychology, economic blooming, and more I have likely missed living a life of work, study, and growth.
What comes next? No one can know this. 2024 is a mystery to me, yet here are some shapes in the dark:
Citizenship
I like where I live. I like my work. I will make additional commitments to my beach life and professional endeavors in 2024.
This will mean travel, more morning swims, some days at the beach, some weekends camping and giving of myself to this place and the people I am coming to call “home.”
Chimeric Cyborg
Remember when my conversion to the machines was ditched?
Looks like the procedure is back on the table. This time, it includes non-human parts, so who can tell? I might evolve through science 😁
Making
A copout point. Of course I am going to make things. Games, blog posts, distilled patterns.
There is no reason to not make more of myself, too. Progress on my FI goals, a better understanding of the world, compassion for others in their journeys, insights to my mind and body and needs and wants.
“Give more than you get.” I endeavor to do that.
Time for Some More?
While there are a few things to gird myself for, I open myself up to the joys I expect will arrive and more that come as a surprise.
My birthday to celebrate with my West Coast friends will be a blast. We get after so many different activities, I sometimes need to find excuse to stay in (like tonight as I write!).
Concerts of power metal, hyper metal, a menagerie of EDM, and more will see me on the dance floor. Heck, who needs a concert to dance? Swing, line dancing, two step, and other classes will see more of me.
Books and shows and music and maybe a game or two could bring me to tears. Many did this past year. I am eager to keep the wonder in me of media stoked.
As AI and machine learning make strides, I for one am ready to welcome new tools – or new sentience – on this Earth.
And company – let me not forget the people. Who will I meet? Continue to enjoy time with? Come to understand and party alongside and travel for and so much more? Not the destination nor the journey, but the company you keep seems to be key to a lot of happy feels.
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Such high hopes for 2024. I do not pretend to have influence over major global affairs, nor dwell anxiously on matters that… well, do not really matter.
2023 has taught me “this too shall pass” – the pain, the joy. I seek to withstand hardship by my strength and bring about its end swiftly. I seek too the opportunities and openness to recognize and accept and be present with the joy that wanders along.
That is me. How about you? What are you expecting in the new year? What do you want for yourself? For others? Let us talk to understand. I think it is time for some more of that.
Cheers to the mysteries forthcoming for you and I ~
Jimmy Chattin 