With 2010 coming to a close in less than two months, I figure now would be a good time to reflect on the year thats passed and what significant events may have occurred during it. 2010 marked a whole bunch of events for me, primarily significant ones at that.
First would be a continuation from 2009, but regardless, I was able to do a school placement within the City of Toronto’s Social Services. It was a very eye-opening experience for me and gave me a great insight into how things work on the inside. From an experience point of view, it was probably the best placement possible, from a hand’s on perspective though, not really the greatest choice – lots of paper work and little client time.
Continuing along the school path lead to graduating from college, another milestone in 2010 for me. If you had known me in high school, you’d know that college seemed like an impossible feat. Not because I’m stoooopid, but simply cause I can’t be bothered to train my short attention span. Anyways, I did manage to focus long enough to graduate with honours from school, now I get to repay OSAP for all the lovely donations they gave me. Thanks!
Unemployment!
Skip ahead 5 months of that fun time…
Employment!
I must say that if I had to choose between being bored all day, having no money and mooching off of people or working, having money and buying other people stuff, I certainly choose the 2nd option. Granted #1 on my list of things to buy is paying off debt, it’s still 100% more productive than sitting around not working.
There have been a few more personal milestones as well that I’ll go without mentioning simply because I don’t like you in that way, but there is one more that I might as well mention.
2010 has marked the first year (presumably in my whole life, but years 1 – 5 I can’t be certain) that I’ve gone with a healthy approach to life. I’ve exercised regularly and more importantly I’ve eaten healthy. Now when I say healthy I don’t just mean a salad every once in a while, I mean full-out drastic life changing diet. No soda, no candy, no chips, no fast food, no deep-fried ___ , no ice cream – well you get the picture. Being that this is the 11th month of this process for me and I don’t even really think about it anymore, I really have no doubt that I’ll be able to finish the year off rather easily. It just proves that “willpower” is simply non-existent. What I mean is that you don’t have to have “lots” of willpower to say, change your diet or quit smoking or exercise more – you simply just have to have the desire to make a change. Think of it as one of those “do, or do not” examples.
That essentially sums up the major moments of 2010 for me, for the small amount of them, it sure felt like the busiest year of my life.
