The guy is all 📈 on all fronts: friends, understanding music, doing the interesting math, getting through writing projects without complaining, and doing solid judo. Things are way better than last year and way way better than the year before that.
As for myself, I have no palatable career options, I'm taking forever on art projects, not improving my home, not really understanding the physics and math I find interesting, and have to be careful about working out.
My back is way better than it was last year and the year before, though.
Obviously, it would be cool if I also were 📈, but this is way better than if he were not doing well and I was. The times when the guy is having trouble, which of course come and go, are anxiety dynamos. As are long-lasting back problems. The non-anxiety bad art, bad career path is actually pretty good, I have to say.
Maybe the lack of anxiety is what's making me excessively sleepy lately. If so, I guess November will take care of that.