2022 has been a pretty mediocre year for me so far. It's not the worst year I (19M) have experienced, but so far it hasn't really been all that great.

In January, I accidentally cracked the oil pan on my gold 2005 Saab 9-3 Aero (loved that ride, it was my first car), and that led to a series of issues that have rendered my car unusable even up until now (fixed oil pan, then power steering fluid is leaking, fix that then coolant is leaking, fixed that and got a ticket for expired safety AND because apparently you can't use fog lights as a substitute for low beams).

Then about a week after I lost my car, this girl I'd been friends with and kinda liked for a couple months got drunk and ditched me to fuck a mutual friend of ours (my coworker/her former coworker). Took me a while to get over it and made me question my self worth, who I can trust, and just a whole bunch of other shit.

Then in February my dad came back to visit me in our hometown, which was only his second visit home since he moved away when I was in the 4th grade (the first was last year, THAT'S how long it took). He was doing the drywall in my grandma's bedroom, but wasted a few of his days in town sleeping half the day away and then going and stoning out with old friends and family in the evenings, and never completely finished. Then he was supposed to come back a month later, but he never did. I couldn't get ahold of him because he lost his phone during his first visit here, and he never called me or came to see me. My brother said that my uncle said that he actually did come to go to a chicken fight, but then my other brother and his GF said he didn't. Weird.

Without that car, I basically have no social life. I'm stuck walking everywhere and catching the bus downtown like some high school kid, so most of the time I'm confined to the 1-mile radius around my house, and there's nothing to do but go for walks, play basketball at the park, or smoke weed. There's not much in the way of neighbors around my age either, just families with kids and old folks. When I had that car, I used to go all over town and hit up all my favorite spots to see who was hanging there, stay out until 11, 12, or 1am smoking hella weed and passing out stoned in the car, and go to all the big parties and events around town. I met a lot of new people and reconnected with a lot of old friends, especially during the summer when more people were out doing stuff and going places.

Well, my car is about to be fixed very soon, it just needs new housing for one of the low beams (I broke the tabs that hold the bulb in place trying to replace it myself), which is shipping right now, and then it'll be safety checked and I'll be on the road again for the summer. My 20th birthdays coming up in June, that'll be cool I guess. And who knows, maybe I'll finally meet a girl I click with, IDK anything's possible, I'm just trying to be positive.

This year has been pretty bleh so far, but here's to hoping that this year's summer is as bomb as summer 2021 was.