Daily Prompt – December 17, 2025

This reminds me of something my father usually asks on my birthday, “how does it feel to be x?” As if the one day between the last age and the new age made some miraculous changes occur and I suddenly feel different. I think this question is very similar for me however for other I’m sure a year could be more impactful.

That is essentially a very round about way of saying yes, my life today is what I pictured a year ago. Now, I am going to once again, ignore that this is a closed ended question that doesn’t really invite a narrative response and provide at least a little more context to my yes.

While a lot happened in the past year, we bought a house, my partner broke their leg badly, I went on 2 cruises, started a social media creation journey, etc. It was not a year in which a lot of changes occurred. We bought the house we were renting so there was no change in where we are living and it was something we talked about from pretty much the moment we moved in here. All the other stuff, to me at least, is just part of the function of life. Travel, new hobbies, injuries and illness, all of this doesn’t factor into what I picture for my life from one point to the next because they are just moments.

I think a more impactful question is a longer range look back like 5 or 10 years. But again that’s for my life and my brain. Maybe others see this differently. For me the year flows so smoothly from one to the next that it’s almost impossible to say this life is different today than a year ago. It would be like saying it’s different today than yesterday. But 5 years ago, I didn’t see myself living in Florida. 10 years ago, I didn’t see myself working remotely at all or even out of the lab. So those questions would have been more thought provoking but still need to be worded more open in order to truly make for a good writing prompt.