Christo has died. Reading his obituary unearthed a memory:
The only meaningful C++ program I’ve ever written was a command line animation of Christo’s gates in Central Park.
I was in high school and was incredibly cynical about the whole thing, so I made an animation of a very primitive ASCII Godzilla that would trample the gates after playing an ominous tune using Beeps.
Now of course I regret my dismissive stance (the gates were very beautiful), but I’ll never forget that C++ program.
I don’t normally do New Year’s resolutions, so I won’t. But I do want to make a commitment to myself and to my family to be more thoughtful and more deliberate about finding in 2020 something that has eluded me for a long time: balance.
I tend to be quite an intense person and particularly hard on myself. Although I’ve already begun working to improve my mental health and anxiety this year, I figure it can’t hurt to use the new year as an opportunity to set this intention specifically and deliberately.
In 2020, I commit to be conscientious about balancing:
Happy new year. Cheers.