2020... What a DISAPPOINTING year !!! !!!

It has been a difficult year but the pendulum swings both ways.

You know, I have been saying that every year for the past 4 years.
Every year has been worse than the last personally and so far it just keeps swinging further to the bad.
Havent seen it come back yet. 2021 doesnt look like its going to be any better than 2020 but Ill keep my fingers crossed I guess.
 
Hey Mike, so sorry for this year's set back with your collection. I know it's likely to be poor solace for you, but misery loves company, and most people who have striven to keep and develop bonsai long term have suffered similar and equally painful losses. I can really only speak for myself, but personally, I've lost too many nice trees over the years to count... sometimes through my own neglect/ignorance or poor horticultural practice, and sometimes through situations that were completely unavoidable. Ultimately, every loss is an opportunity to learn, I suppose... at least, that's one way to rationalize the loss of a tree you've owned, worked, and loved for many years. Anyway, here's to flushing 2020 down the shitter where it belongs and looking forward to something better in the future. Good luck.


... and I had to say goodbye to Norm this year, as well, but I have no regrets there as he had an awesome 14 year run with us after we rescued him...
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And he had great taste in fancy underwear. RIP Norm.
 
You know, I have been saying that every year for the past 4 years.
Every year has been worse than the last personally and so far it just keeps swinging further to the bad.
Havent seen it come back yet. 2021 doesnt look like its going to be any better than 2020 but Ill keep my fingers crossed I guess.
You know, I am not sure how to respond to this without being too woo woo for most people. You have a choice as to how you see the future. You have stated that "2021 doesnt look like its going to be any better than 2020". Thoughts and words are very powerful. They can be allies or enemies. Change you thinking and you just might change the future. Start with words, for though they are an imperfect form for the conveyance of ideas and thoughts, they are a beginning. Every journey starts with a single step. One step after another, just keep to your own path. It is not a race and it has no end.
I have a dear friend who has purchased several winning lottery tickets. A few hundred here and several thousand there, he never hits the big one. I asked him why he had won so many (put 2 through college and bought a house after 30 years of renting), when most people never win a single one. He said he "knew" he would win. I asked him why he never hit a major win and he said he "knew" he would not. He excepted with great universal gratitude the wins and they were more than enough for him.
I have never won anything like this, but I never thought that I would. Still, my wins in life more than sustain me and I am deeply appreciative. There is no greater power than that of gratitude. Hoping for this and wishing for that is only hoping and wishing, they do not sustain us.
Lao Tzu says, Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union. It is the ultimate state of man. (or woman)
 
I lost my Mom this year at the age of 93. I can’t feel too bad about it because she lived healthy and happy right up to the end.
My condolences for your loss. I lost my mom 14 years ago and I still miss her.
 
Excellent year for trees, lost none, Bristlecone had best growth yet, working on deer trail hiking trail since Spring. Smoke for a few days sucked, current plague sucks, mostly have ignored both and continued living life.
 
Best year for my trees yet. No work-travel. No private travel. Home pretty 24/7 since early march with the university closed and all working from home.

No need to say what I think of 2020, besides my trees.
 
2020 Is the year the world experience the freedom of an Saudi arabian woman like
i'm 33 and worry à lot, i understand m'y generation is the dis one.
Boomer had a life we will never Know
 
2020 Is the year the world experience the freedom of an Saudi arabian woman like
i'm 33 and worry à lot, i understand m'y generation is the dis one.
Boomer had a life we will never Know
Not sure I follow.??
 
Pshhh... No Extra-terrestrial invasions, Satanic sink-holes, nuclear apocalypse, half-demon beasts with varying numbers of heads, tongues and trumpet, beckoning “the Dark Prince”s return.

If THIS is “Biblical” tribulation.. we are getting off easy.

Just waiting for the “Seventh Seal” Reveal.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Right before ET “phone’s home”, He had to burrow Father Christmas’s cell.
 
my paycheck had never been raise and now i loose about 1000 bucks because my industrie is devasted. I'm furlough boy. How could i can be happy
 
my paycheck had never been raise and now i loose about 1000 bucks because my industrie is devasted. I'm furlough boy. How could i can be happy
I’m happy for/about each breath I take, each new thing I learn/teach, each positive personal interaction I am a part of...

I look to my family, seeing them take in breaths of that same air... learning/teaching new things.. and being involved in positive interaction... these things ALSO make me happy...

I lock myself in a cave and am happy that I possess merely the thoughts to analyze my own existence and thought process ITSELF.

“I think, therefore I am”... THAT brings me happiness.

Everything else is “details”...

And yes.. the “details” seem pretty bleak, at the moment...

It has been bleak before...

It has been comparatively harmonious before...

BOTH will continuously be an active part of this humorous “mixed bag” we refer to, comfortably, as existence.

🤓

It’s about prioritizing your perception. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
 
I’m happy for/about each breath I take, each new thing I learn/teach, each positive personal interaction I am a part of...

I look to my family, seeing them take in breaths of that same air... learning/teaching new things.. and being involved in positive interaction... these things ALSO make me happy...

I lock myself in a cave and am happy that I possess merely the thoughts to analyze my own existence and thought process ITSELF.

“I think, therefore I am”... THAT brings me happiness.

Everything else is “details”...

And yes.. the “details” seem pretty bleak, at the moment...

It has been bleak before...

It has been comparatively harmonious before...

BOTH will continuously be an active part of this humorous “mixed bag” we refer to, comfortably, as existence.

🤓

It’s about prioritizing your perception. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
I though i had realize my dream as an Airlines had accept me last year.
Now i'm furlough and it's very tough. But i assume totalement be luckier than many "wannabee" (young guy training) because they pay almost 100K Buck for nothing.
 
The last time I ACTUALLY felt unhappy... I think I was homeless.... but I often reflect, positively on the things I learned during those times. (So for me, happiness MAY just be relative)

I’m really sorry that you are hurting, friend. Did the Airline offer any information as to “long-term” plans?
 
Yes, will have around 250 people get out
my bank account don't permit me to buy anything more than our good
wife start to be crazy cause She don"t buy clothes since march
 
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