It’s December and for me that means it is “blog every day month” an effort for which I have long since concocted a list of blog-able reflective topics called my December-ish posts each of which should do little more than offer a leaping off point for some rambling writing to fill up my daily blogging quota.

Today that topic is…

One quote that
sums up your 2025 is…

Easy come, easy go.

In many ways I signed up for a kind of trial of instability.  Not locking into regularly scheduled employment for a couple years, taking gigs, doing contracts, picking at projects, working part time, going back to school, et cetera, et cetera… it all added up to a kind of here one day, gone the next kind of changeability of my days.

I was reminded again of that this evening as yet another thing I was working with unexpectedly seemed to have wrapped up just as the year was drawing to a close.

Oh well.

Does that mean I enter 2026 looking for more stability? Or does it mean I start to get used to it?

There is an old idea that I’ve brought up before in my writing, which is the idea that you gotta be punched in the face a few times before you get used to being punched in the face. No one wants to get punched in the face, but being in a situation where you would be likely to be punched in the face for bad reasons means that how you react to such an event could mean the difference between survival and… not. So, overcoming that initial shock to being punched the first or second time is always the hardest.  

I haven’t been punched in the face, at least not literally, but there is a metaphor tangled up in there somewhere that feels like it might have something to say about 2025.

I’ve gotten used to being metaphorically punched in the professional face and things have started to feel like, you know… easy come, easy go. Onto the next adventure.