I’ve mentioned 2014 many times over the years in my various blogs and comics, but I’ve never fully expounded on why exactly it was such a tremendously awful year for me. I’m gonna do that here, in full detail.
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2013
It’s hard to properly communicate what 2013 felt like. The most appropriate descriptor I can assign to it is a slight headache, with a little nausea thrown in on the side. Some important things did happen, most of which weren’t great, but none really meant much. It was bad and boring and annoying. A stale, uncomfortable period of time spent floating far too long down a lukewarm Lazy River type attraction at a theme park.
Ultimately, it was a necessary transition into a new part of my life that was unnecessarily long. A protracted prologue that really didn’t need to exist. There were very few standout moments, and if they’d been shuffled into the preceding or following years I could have entirely done without it. It was just a pointless prelude to the trainwreck that was 2014.
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2011 and 2012 felt less like two separate years and more like one superyear. Like a DVD combo pack of a hit movie and its successful sequel. Similar plot, some slightly new themes, a cast of new characters, and a lot of classically cinematic scenes.
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I don’t especially like the song “Peace & Quiet” by White Lies. In fact, I don’t even remember what it sounds like. But because it was released at the beginning of 2011 it has inextricably linked itself to that time period and my memory of it by proxy.
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Maybe I knew.
Standing on the street corner in that Parkdale suburb at 1:00am on January 1st 2010 while listening to a new Broken Bells song, I think I knew. I knew that 2010 would be a tough year.
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