It has been the worst year for a couple people close to me, so by extension not that great so far.

 

I don't know if it's the worst but I can say for certain it is not the best.
Levi

 

So far it has ranked pretty high on the worst list, but there have been many years when bad things happened. Losing my mom ranks high on the list, but this year has definitely been an extraordinarily nasty year.

 

2020 is nasty. Is it the worst year? Not for us. Though we can't do all the things we want to do, we are all healthy, so I'll take that as a win.

2019 was pretty good. I retired, we had a great summer going here and there, then I lost my sister, so 2019 was instantly changed to a lousy year. Observing the "firsts" (Christmas, Thanksgiving, sister's birthday) without my sister meant for some emotional days.

2003 has to rank as the worst year. Lost my Dad, six weeks later Rick's Dad, and before my Dad we lost an aunt and uncle on Rick's side. After his dad, we lost an aunt on my side, another uncle on his side, one of my previous co-workers, daughter in law lost her grandfather, and there were other deaths of people close to us. Spent a lot of time going to wakes and funerals. After Rick's Dad passed, we were thrown into the "how do we help deal with Mom (his) who had Alzeheimer's. I felt like an emotional train wreck.

 

Not the worst for sure. Hard to say what was the "Worst". I used to think that the worst year of my life was when I was 17, decided to drop out of high school to help my then GF whose family basically threw her to the curb and moved in with her, which was a terrible mistake (apple/tree thing). She was horrible, screwed me over, we were living on almost nothing, split up, I sank into a terrible time and ended up destroying my life at the time and found myself in trouble and with almost nothing left to my name on earth besides a worn out car and a box of belongings. However, that then was the thing that motivated me to do something different, went to college (which I previously never planned on), worked hard and got extremely good grades, started a career and met the love of my life who I am still with 25 years later. I make good money, get to play with cars and have a pretty damned good life. So I guess that was the BEST year of my life and I just did not know it yet? I find that to be the case with many times in my life I think are the worst, so it is always hard to judge.

 

Well, you are living proof that every cloud has a silver lining.

 

2020 is certainly the longest year of my life.
Personally, it hasn't truly been a bad year for me but as someone observed, it's not over yet.
Collectively, it has been an incredibly frustrating year due to covid and the response to it.

I suspect 2020 will be best viewed in hindsight!

 

I guess for me it is going to go down as a pretty depressing year. In addition to Covid this upcoming Holiday season will be the first that I don't spend at my home that I grew up in. I think I spent almost every Holiday of my life there.

 

My feelngs on this T-shirt:

 

Gene was that for sale somewhere?