What I learned in 2025

1. I hate corporate world

For 5 years, I worked for Accenture. The company is fine. Actually, I'm greatful for them. Financially it made sense at the time. But, I hated the job since day one.

I'm not tailored for the kind of job it is supposed to be. It's much more about politics than it is, in my case, technical skills.

Paraphrasing: "I'm too old for this shit!"

2. My ADD is taking up it's toll

I'm a late diagnose. I was 49 when I became aware. I have a huge, and I mean HUGE, problem with starting things.

I have plans. I NEED to start starting things. Or else...

3. Marriage is hard

I've been married before. For 15 years. Then, we split.

2 years later I was marrying again. Different person. Same problems. I guess I'm the problem. Or, marriage is the problem.

I can't figure it out.

4. Known fact: happiness is a state of mind, not a goal

For some moments, I was a happy dude. Not that many moments but, some.

Now is not one of them. #2 is, as I said, taking its toll.

5. I cannot carry the weight of the world. Nor the weight of somebody else's problems

That's it. And I need to learn to let that weight go. I guess that's a process. A hard one.

6. Try to be nice

Stoicism is something I studied a little. I just can't. It's not who I'm and I don't think I could ever reach that level of calm. Not even close.

I'm trying to be nicer to people. It's a struggle because ADD does things to your brain (and it explains a lot of behaviors I had in the past - specially not being nice to people).

7. I need to start to take care of this decaying body

Even tough the 50s are the new 30s (or something like that), my body, apparently, doesn't know that. It IS acting like 50s.

Playing table tennis 2x a week is not enough. Actually, its making it worse. My knees are failing, my back hurts and my shoulder is giving up on me.

Maybe, just maybe, I need some complementary exercises to make things less worse.

8. Finish what you started

I have a problem on starting things. I also have a problem finishing what I, eventualy, started.

Writing these things down is making me cringe. Crap.

9. Be around nice people

Since I left Accenture, I started to working closer to some new folks. What a difference. Being around nice people in a nice job makes a huge difference.

10. Wrap up

2025 was, indeed, I nice year. It sure has its ups and downs but I'm here to talk about them. Greatful for that. See you in 2026.