After two years of pandemic, 2022 marked the year of a new start. It marked a turn as I restarted international travel. It also marked the turn of a decade for me as I entered my 30s. But it was so much more than that. It was a start to a new mentality, one that I aspired to have ever since learning about FIRE as reflected in some of these highlights of 2022. A Stressful Start The first quarter of…
Goodbye 2021, hello 2022! As I look back on the past year and contemplated the theme of 2021, I realized that The Year of Waiting was the most fitting. I started 2021 with excitement as I do every year, anticipating the year that would come with every ounce of optimism. Unfortunately most of the waiting ended up in disappointment, but that’s just life sometimes. A Diminishing Excitement At the start of 2021, I was most excited to get the newly…
Welcome to my 2020 Year in Review! 2020 flew by like nothing. It seemed like it was just yesterday that I was excited to see 2020 roll around. A new decade, a new start. Well, as we all know, that didn’t pan out quite as planned. Instead, a pandemic struck and before we knew it, we were just waiting for 2020 to finish to get to 2021. With that said, I wouldn’t say 2020 was a complete disaster. While many…