2025 of the year

So obviously the big thing is that I live in Canada now. Not permanently, not yet - that's a problem 2026 Nat will have to deal with - but stepping out of a 2024 that left me stressed and heartbroken and unbelievably tired, I cannot really oversell the degree to which this was possibly The Best Decision I've Made In Years. Moving 7,000km doesn't instantly fix all your problems. There isn't some magic quality to the air in BC that cures depression. I still have off days (or weeks, or months), I've still had to deal with the frictions of trying to adjust to a new life and immerse myself in a new community. I still don't really know how to be single, and haven't yet completely figured out what the fuck I'm doing with healthcare. But in giving my life the hard reset that comes with dropping into a new city on another continent, I've been forced to confront the ways in which my life in Scotland had become stagnant. Even before Rachel and I split, I'd been a very insular, very comfortable…