What on Earth is happening?

 I started this blog nearly twenty years ago now, seems unbelievable to me that much time has passed. It was to help me gain courage to come out as a gay man. Society was starting to change, things were really looking up for mankind in general, sadly I never expected to write the following.

 I find myself wondering more and more each day with fear, if I'm watching the beginning of the collapse of the United States as we know it. Frightening thought but is this the end? Surly without the protection of a strong US, smaller Western nations will get swallowed up eventually.

 I feel at the rate things are going, it will be irreversible by the end of the year. It's like I'm stuck in a George Orwell novel, I'm watching it unfold around me, I know how things are going to end but there's nothing I can do and only a few others can see it as well. I don't understand how, very anti-American ideas, suddenly became patriotic ideas.

 It's also the first time as a Canadian, I feel threatened by the US instead of reassured by their presence. I feel we are on a fast track to becoming the Ukraine of North America, I feel that our country needs to quietly arm itself. I don't want to become Trumpland 2.0 or Musk North. 

And just like that, 2025!

I seriously am starting to understand the people who decorate in November for the holidays. At least it gives them time to enjoy their work. It feels like I just got everything up for the season and then last night I shut off the lights for another year. 

How is it possible that the Y2K panic was 25 years ago, it just seems unbelievable to me it was that long ago. Every baby boomer will now be at least 60 or older. After midnight January first, Generation X (my generation) began turning 60. It feels like I just made an error and meant to type 40 but unfortunately it's sixty. 

I made a decision a few years ago to say yes to any adventures no matter how small, adventures that I felt would appeal to me. My partner and I were invited to a New Year's Eve party so we said yes, it was mostly generation X and a couple of Boomers. We had a lot of fun, we just did it slower than we used to lol. We also felt that we might not make it to midnight but we all did. We toasted the new year and then everyone called an Uber to have us home in bed before one in the morning. It's what happens when Y2K was 25 years ago, when Home Alone came out 35 years ago, when 1980 was 45 years ago.