So there goes 2025, and the first quarter of this century. In human terms, the age of twenty-five can bring on a case of quarter-life crisis. You know\u2026 a time of doing strange things, making drastic choices and questioning basically everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hmm, that sounds a whole lot like 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For example, if you\u2019re going through a quarter-life crisis (QLC) you might make drastic changes. You know, like smashing down half of your big white house to make way for a giant ballroom – in the process destroying historical buildings, gardens planted by former First Ladies etc etc etc. Then again, a QLC is also about trying new things. So why not build a place for ballroom dancing? Who cares if people say you\u2019re too old to dance?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In fact, QLC is also about discovering that age is just a number. In this year of 2025, both the United Kingdom (in Barking and Dagenham) and New York City got the youngest mayors they\u2019ve ever had. Plus it was the year in which the seventh (I think) Jurassic Park film was released. Just proves that someone somewhere believes that certain things never get old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By the time you turn twenty-five you might think you\u2019ve seen everything. But that\u2019s where quarter-life can take you by surprise. Like how the French crown jewels were stolen right out of the Louvre. It was a major heist, a mystery to police, and a social media phenomenon partly due to that mysterious guy in the fedora (who turned out to be a super stylish 15-year-old passerby). Weirdest thing of all? It wasn\u2019t even a movie starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney. It. Actually. Happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking of what did and didn\u2019t happen, anyone hitting quarter-life could start to question their own sense of reality. 2025 sure did, probably because a fictional girl group called HUNTR\/X topped the US Billboard Hot 100. And then there was Tilly Norwood, the AI-generated actress who realised the fears of many thespians. It started to get real when creators said she could actually replace a real actor. Apparently the sales pitch is that, unlike demanding Hollywood actors, Tilly will be no trouble at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Right\u2026 because technology\u2019s never given us any problems. (That\u2019s sarcasm, Tilly. Can you do sarcasm?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But hey, it didn\u2019t get completely futuristic and crazy this year. It\u2019s not like we witnessed the World Humanoid Robot Games or anything. Oh wait\u2026 we did. But then again, this was also the year that fact-checking was removed from Facebook and Instagram. So who knows what\u2019s real any more?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the plus side, a QLC can mean new discoveries. Just like this year\u2019s discovery of a formerly unknown pharaoh’s tomb – the first tomb to be discovered since 1922. We also witnessed the discovery of the 128 new moons orbiting Saturn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Okay so all in all, it wasn\u2019t a perfect year. Unless you\u2019re a mathematician, in which case that\u2019s exactly what it was. 2025 was a perfect square – the result of 45 x 45 – and the first \u201cperfect\u201d year the world has seen since 1936.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As we wrap up a year like no other, stay safe and take care of those around you\u2026 even the ones created by a microchip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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