I’ve got about an hour to bash out my usual blog
summary about the year 2021. This year, is the first year that I spent the
better part of the eve at home. Didn’t have a restaurant gig to earn me a few
extra bucks and there are no parties for me to go to. What I do have, however,
is a comfortable home and I’m enjoying a glass of an apricot liquor that I took
from the clearance of a Central Asian restaurant a few days back.
So, when you consider that this year was pretty much
dominated by various forms of Covid and various restrictions, I guess I should
be thankful that I am in the position where I can sit at home and bash out a
blog piece with a glass of liquor and Oreo cookies. Whilst towards the latter
half of the year, I was limited to one source of income, I actually had a steady
source of income, which is more than what many people had.
I guess you could say that things on the global front
improved a little with the arrival of an American President who actually
treated the pandemic seriously. However, whilst Mr. Bidden has provided much
needed sanity, the nation remains exceedingly divided and tribal. One has to ask;
can a single 78-year-old heal the gap in less than four years? Furthermore, the
other geopolitical elephant hasn’t done much better. Whilst its tempting to enjoy
watching billionaires being taken down a peg in the name of “shared prosperity,”
it’s been at a cost. Whatever growing freedoms Chinese citizens were starting
to enjoy have been curtailed and the businessmen that the Chinese government
has gone after were maverick innovators that the modern economy needs in order
to move. Sure, China was showing that it was tackling inequality but are its
methods going to make the problem worse? The world as comedian Bill Mahr argues
is trapped between democracies that can’t get things done and autocracies that
are downright nasty. The rest of us, can only look for a balance.
Just as nations need to look for a geopolitical
balance between democratic but ineffectual America and effective but nasty
China, individuals also need to look for balance. For me, I’ve accepted that
the “corporate career” I fantasised about was not meant for me. I’ve come to
accept that I am not meant to be a major part of the “working professional”
class. Yet, it’s a path I can’t quite abandon in as much as it pays me enough
to get by and at the same time allows me the time to look for things to keep me
occupied.
So, I stay in my existence in the insolvency trade. I
hate looking at files and documents and I avoid looking at anything remotely
legalistic in nature. However, I do what I can to spend time with traders of
assets. Always thought trading in scrap had a certain nobility to it. We live
in a world where we are encouraged to waste and create rubbish, so what can be
better than making a living from getting people to waste less. One of my great
friends from this side of the business takes pride in the fact that he hasn’t
bought a t-shirt for over a decade because he’s picked up his cloths from liquidation
asset sales.
The Evil Young Lady is still trying to find her feet
and to get her life sorted. I’ve told her that I have two major tasks in life.
One, I need to see that she’s secured onto a path or at least made the effort
to look for what she wants out of life. The other, is to prepare for old age –
not that I think I am particularly old but now that I am over 45 and rushing
towards 50, I have to accept that certain things will be denied to me and I
have to find some way of ensuring I head into the twilight in some comfort.
Interestingly enough, the hero of the year, is the
Vietnamese girl that I entered into a “life-partnership” with a decade ago.
Huong took a friend’s shop and is now working hard to build up a business. I do
what I can to help her out particularly in the area of managing government stakeholders
and managing compliance issues. I’ve also managed to use her business to polish
up copywriting skills as I help to edit her post on Facebook. This is a woman
whom many would have said was “wrong” for me but then I decided to take the
chance on something that might have been so wrong that it would actually turn
out right. I am glad to say that her hunger and drive to make a better life for
people around her have proved my bet to be thus far correct:
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In a few moments, this wet end of 2021 will be over
and we will start 2022. I hope that what we experienced in 2021 will only get
us ready for 2022 to be a better year in every sense of the word.
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