"I've lived in Brownsville my whole life, and if you are looking for a small city, this is the city for you. It has beautiful culture and history, with multiple beaches nearby, making for a small tourist area. It's the perfect balance between a small city and urban landscape, where community is strong."
If you notice your role in the relationship revolves around pitying the other person in some way, get out. Over the years, I've built some very solid, healthy relationships and some deeply flawed ones as well. The difference? The problematic ones were centered on my desire to rewrite the other person's story...but that's not my job. It results in an imbalanced, unhappy friendship.
2024 was insane for me. Layoffs, career progression, then dumping that progression for personal progression. I'm still not quite sure if I've made the right decision; I wake up tired, I'm always designing late into the night, I'm making much less money and spending more than I earn on an upcoming venture that I'm not sure if it'll work out, but I am overall pretty content, and I'm looking forward to what 2025 brings.
"Jury is still out for me on what's my favorite this year. I read Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King recently, and I really loved that, so I am leaning that way.... The Last One by Will Dean was addicting at one point, too, but really fell apart towards the end. Solito by Javier Zamora was FANTASTIC. That actually might be my favorite one this year. Heartwarming and intense at times. Great narration, and it's also a biography, so it's so easy to connect with the narrator."
