I know it's easy to make such threads and we've had 2013 summary threads and things but what do you think you learned last year and has anything within that year helped you better understand who you are as a person, or indeed changed you in a notable way?

 

I'll make my contribution later.

I learned who my real friends are and who not. And that did change me in certain way though.

I learnt that my friends at school weren't my friends and I'm glad that happened because it's better now.

friends being non-friends is just horrible :sick:

Indeed, and it's even more horrible when they apparently can't tell you they don't want you with them and just drop you out. Now that I think about it, they also kind of ran away from me, in fact they hid themselves during the lunch break haha, a bit miserable.

I've learned that your best friend can become your worst enemy in a matter of hours, and that as a result I can't really 100% trust anyone in case they suddenly turn on me…

Two and two always makes a five.

You can't trust anyone.

i learned that i need to be more positive and distract myself and take risks or else i'll get bored and overthink useless things and get depressed

i didn't really learn anything new. i reconfirmed that i hate feeling inferior or 'less than' to the point of depression or stupid decisions i guess, but that's something that i've had before.

I've learned that the art class I started in August takes all the enjoyment out of art for me.

And some other stuff...but I'm too tired to think right now.

nothing special

The location of my younger brother after looking for him for 28 years. I also learned that I have a sister in law, two nephews and niece!:-)

This year I learned that (for me at least) you can't ever really know yourself. You can attempt to work out who you have been and why you have done the things you have done, but given that you are first and foremost a product of experience and life events, within the moment you don't really know how you are going to react. If you don't think or don't really do much or both then I guess it becomes easier because there's no real evolution in your character. On the other hand, if you want to experience different things and do things then you're likely not to be able to keep up. You need to constantly revise your perception of exactly who you are, otherwise you wake up and realise that you've changed without realising and it's almost impossible to see where it all stemmed from. Like each fine layer of foundation supporting you is added so quickly yet so in such a subtle manner that you couldn't retrace your steps if you tried.

 

It means I've no idea who I'm going to be in the future since I have no control over what happens in my life. In a quarter of a century I've still not experienced the death of somebody close to me, I hope to find love again and I also have a few plans for travel that I imagine will shape me in at least some way.

 

I guess this year I learned that if I want to experience more in life I'm likely going to change quite a bit. This isn't a problem, it's just after the depression of my adolescent years, one of the things that dragged me out was a kind of self awareness and understanding which meant I at least understood myself, even if the rest of the world didn't make sense. This past year I've come to realise that sometimes it is hard to be truly sincere in your actions and your hopes, when you don't clearly know who you are. How can you be?

always confirming the idea of "If you never try, you will never know"

There must have been something.

i didn't really learn anything new. i reconfirmed that i hate feeling inferior or 'less than' to the point of depression or stupid decisions i guess, but that's something that i've had before.

 

I don't even know what the hell I was on about or what this is in reference to LOL

I learned to keep a tight rein on my money.

i learnt that getting enough sleep is really important. i learnt a bunch of other things too but i can't start listing :P

I shouldn't beat myself up over small failures.

I need to be more self aware in terms of my impact on society, rather than self aware in terms of my insecurities.