2022

On the last day of the year it is time for a short look back on what was my 2022.

The thing that has cast a shadow over the whole year is the incredibly useless war in Ukraine. It worries me, I don’t know what that brain-cancer suffering selfish fuckwit in the Kremlin’s next step will be and I don’t like to see this meaningless conflict stretched another year. I hate all the disinformation Russia has spread over the world, I don’t want to witness the detonation of another atomic bomb. I hope Ukraine keeps standing tall, I hope NATO will keep supporting Ukraine with everything they have, I hope Russia will crumble and degenerate into a crippled and poverty stricken country with nothing left to threaten the world with for the coming centuries. I hope Putin dies soon. Slava Ukraini.

This decade is the worst I have experienced since the eighties. I don’t like what is happening around us. There is no sense of freshness, no feeling of a new dawning, like we are on the brink of new discoveries, there is a lack of unity, a sense of a bond between the peoples. Only unnecessary dissension, confusion and disarray. Money isn’t everything. Being a millionaire or a billionaire should be illegal. There is nothing wrong with having a little extra money as long as you pay your taxes. Having enough to be able to buy Africa as a whole and not paying taxes is. Money should be shared. No one should have to sleep on the street while two blocks down someone is able to bathe in hundred dollar bills. It often makes me conclude the world would really be better off without human beings messing everything up. You might conclude I am a bit of a dark person and maybe you're right. But I think I have all the right to be. After 52 years of living I think I have seen enough to come to these conclusions. And deep inside I still am a happy little fellow trying to think positive thoughts.

So. Let’s talk about my list of good things of 2022. It seems I got myself a steady job after more than twenty years of being a free-lancer. I still have time to be film maker but I do not have to worry about whether or not I will have food on the table next month. That’s good. I still am with the same woman I already love for over twenty years. That’s awesome. I made a couple of nice paper models. I started reading books again. My cats still are alive and healthy. I have friends, in real life and online. I still have a mother. I can enjoy the little (and bigger) things in life that make it all worthwhile: food. Music. Panel shows. Walks in the park. Family. Friends. A rocket launch. A rocket landing. New boots. A new pair of trousers. A new coat. A silly cartoon. Reading bedtime stories to my girlfriend and making her laugh.

I have no new year’s resolutions because I am convinced that if you want to change something, be it yourself or the world, you shouldn’t wait until a new year begins,  you should take action right away. I just hope 2023 will be better than 2022.
My wishes for 2023 are plain and simple. Peace. Love. Freedom. Happiness. Equality. Tolerance. Climate change awareness. It shouldn’t be that hard to reach those goals. Maybe I should wish for some kind of revolution. A kind of turnaround in consciousness about who we are, what we do and how we should live together on this little planet, which is the only place we can live now. We still have no other place to go. I wish you all a really good and prosperous 2023 with peace of mind and world peace.

Take heart.
—PK