What December 2023 Means To Me

This December was a strange month, there was hardly any frost at all throughout the month. It was very cloudy during the very short days. It felt like it was more dark than normal. There was lots of wind and lots of rain; on the upside, we didn't spend much on our heating. During the Darkest part of the month there was a mass shooting in Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic ("Check republic") I don't  know why he did it;  at the same time a volcano erupted in Iceland, I was astonished by the sight of it, a river of lava and a  geyser of fire. The world we live in is amazing. 

When it is very dark, I think of the blackjack card game because the goal of the game is to stay below 21, the 21st of December is the darkest day. The word black is used to describe darkness. 

I looked at the new year ahead and thought I should play more and watch TV more because time goes by so fast, it seemed not long ago that I watched the new year celebrations for 2023. Play more computer games, eat more vegetables and watch more TV, do what you need to do and leave time aside for leisure. A friend of mine passed away this month, he was the same age as me, he was killed in a traffic incident. I don't know how long I have left, I could live on for longer or I could pass away in one second. 

What December 2022 means to me

December 2022 was a mild winter for my part of the world, the temperature would often go from about 3°C at night to about 9°c in the day time. Half of the month was spent watching the knockout stages of the world cup in Qatar; I was amazed by the arrogance of my society. Instead of showing the opening ceremony of the world cup, the BBC was criticizing Qatar. They were making claims of human rights abuses and things like that. It would be like Britain hosting the world cup and other countries sending their journalists to the British museum to point out that we stole hundreds of objects from other nations and didn't give it back instead of talking about the football. I was very disappointed with British journalism. I was also disappointed with people wearing things that promote gay rights to the game because it is illegal to be openly gay in their country, they were showing disrespect for the host nation's laws and customs. I think my nation is very arrogant. 

December was about inflation and war, a theme that dominated the whole year. At one point in the year, fuel was priced at £2 per liter, £60 to fill up my tank. Plus natural gas was 10p per kilowatt-hour, very expensive. We had a very challenging year. 

The other big topic of the month was the takeover of twitter and the inside revelation of the company. Elon revealed that Twitter was abusing its censorship controls. It was censoring people because they didn't like them and covering up scandal about politicians that they supported. They were taking public money that was earmarked for teachers and police staff and using it to pay twitter to silence bad news about democrat leaders; a taste of corruption that was swept under the carpet by the press. 

It is now 2023, I pray and hope for a peaceful world with co-operative kindness to all. A happy 2023? Let's see. 

What December 2019 means to me

It is January 2020 now, some of the sci-fi books I read in the past made tall predictions for the 2020s decade so I was expecting robots to be walking among us by this time, and flying cars and things like that. 

There was very little frost during December 2019 and it rained for about two thirds of the time. Many of the rivers in England surged very hard and some of them overflowed slightly. Throughout December Australia's bush lands were on fire because of a prolonged drought. It is very clear that we are changing the climate slightly. Every part of the Earth has changed a bit and people noticed it in 2019. If Antarctica's ice melts too much then we will find ourselves flooded for good. Plus we could turn the planet into an oven trapping more and more heat until the planet resembles Venus. 

December 2019 was the most damp and political December I have ever seen. Here in the UK we had a snap election to break the Brexit Deadlock. In America Donald Trump was impeached and will face a trial very soon to decide if he can remain the president. I actually got sick of all the politics and started to read other things more like Wikipedia and e books about the afterlife and things like that. 

This December was my son's first Christmas, I have become determined to give my son many happy memories. We took lots of pictures and celebrated my parents 25 wedding anniversary in South reading in a nice little hotel. 

Now... I wonder what the 20s will be like. Will my son have a wonderful childhood? Will I provide my son and wife with a decent life style and give them a good life? What will the 20s mean to Jacob and what will he think of it all when he is 10 years old and a senior student in primary school preparing for the 2030s where he will spend his juvenile years. What will the 20s mean to the Booths.  

I pray for happyness and good health.