Call 2025 the year of Go, and play Go. Get to this long-desired SDK or Dan already. Get a tsumego solving schedule. Play an IRL game or two. Visit a first (or Nth) tournament. Visit a Go club in a neighboring city. Dedicate some of your precious time this year to Go, not an obsession with some stuff.
The focus on Go will help you with other domains of life by making you more energized and by bringing you fun. But it won’t work if you don’t put any boundaries between entirely different parts of your life.
Resentment is not an answer nor a productive state of mind.
What I mean: I’d want the title for a thread that we’ll all be visiting time and again this year to be either …
UPLIFTING without being naïvely hopeful; hope certainly IS a good thing, but a too … “tipsy” … attitude that is bound to disappoint us in case our hopes do not fulfill is, of course, NOT helpful, we must stay able to withstand, able to work for a better world.
or
humorous (this includes irony and sarcasm but doesn’t go so far as to be cynical or vitriolic (as I, admittedly, sometimes can be)).
What I mean: I’d prefer us all coming here with a smile instead of a weary of annoyed feeling.
But hey, I’ll come here anyway
I know that, but it would not be respectful. OP can also change it back. Or another regular can decide that their choice is best. This would result in an undesired situation.
