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2025 So Far

Happy 2025, everyone! I hope you’re all doing well in the new year so far. Unfortunately, my 2025 hasn’t started so great.

Prelude

My birthday was a few days before the new year. Most years, I don’t get to celebrate how I would preferably like to, and I often have to come up with a Plan B. However, this time, I was able to celebrate with some of my new friends I made last summer.

We went to an arcade, and then had dinner at The Cheesecake Factory. I had a great time and I enjoyed spending time with them. They got me gifts, which I wasn’t expecting. I’m someone who isn’t too concerned with birthday gifts; their presence alone is a gift itself. They also paid for my food at dinner, which was very nice of them. I wanted to contribute, but they refused to let me lol.

2025 So Far

A couple of days after my birthday, I woke up sick. I could feel it coming on the previous night, so I wasn’t surprised. What sucked is that we were going to visit family, but couldn’t because I was too ill to go anywhere. I was thinking about trying to power through it, but I decided against it. I would have been miserable all day, and I didn’t want to risk getting anyone sick.

When my sickness didn’t let up, I tested myself and of course I had COVID. So I spent from New Year’s Eve through a little over a week into 2025 isolated in my room. It was a very rough time as I rested and took medicine to get better.

I had a few things I was planning on starting this month, but they’ve been pushed back to February. It wouldn’t have made sense to get things started yet when I was a third into the month.

I’ve been feeling better, although I have a residual cough that apparently lasts for a few weeks after isolation. I can tell that it isn’t a sickly cough, it’s more of a tickle cough. I’m not sure if that makes sense, but that’s the best way I know how to describe it. Most times when I go to speak, I start coughing first. It’s very annoying.

Starting in February, I’m getting back into action. Wish me luck! ~ T

That’s a wrap on 2024!

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Join Rise Be is running an Emerging Adult Leadership Summit in 2025! It is free and open to folks 18 to 29 years of age.

  • WHEN: Friday, January 31st, 10 AM – 3 PM
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Join Rise Be 2025 Emerging Adult Leadership Summit

Fun fact: earlier this year, our Peer Support Specialist, Quinn, was a keynote speaker at Join Rise Be’s Young Adult Leadership Summit. During their presentation, they spoke about how building a community got them to where they are now. Check out highlights from their presentation HERE!