Hello Friends!
It’s been a while since I’ve done this! Welcome to Hindsight 2025 (with some quick 2024 stuff thrown in, since I never updated you on that). This year has been crazy with Job hunting, bookwork, and everyone’s favorite PROCRASTINATION! So let’s take a look at the past two years and everything they brought me.
2024 marked the end of my college career, as I graduated in May. Before that, I caught pnemonia and missed almost a quarter of my final semester, did one last show (Alice by Heart, I was the Mock Turtle, a very amusing role), and completed my writing capstone, writing four short stories to complete my major in Writing (If you want to read those short stories, they are all on the website: The Web of Hemun, The Traditionalist, The Great Immortal, and On the Death of Mota).
The rest of the year was filled with job applications and adventures. The most notable of which was being part of my best friend’s wedding party, an experience I will not soon forget.
However, I ended 2024 in a rather crappy place. I fell into a depression/anxiety spiral. I entered a multi-month-long process of trying to break bad habits that I had found myself stuck in and slipping deeper into. While I’m not going to go into the details here (SOME things need to stay private in my life), I am in a much better place now.
But enough about the past, it’s time to talk about the more recent past.
2025 started the same way 2024 ended, with me working on myself. I was posting semi-consistently on Instagram and trying to find a job. I eventually found a summer position at a day camp run by a local museum. I began waiting for June to roll around so I could get that started.
Unfortunately, a few tragedies struck as I played that waiting game. Firstly, a close cousin of mine passed away suddenly. It was hard for my entire family as we processed the loss, and I’ve been missing him all the time. I wish he were still here with us right now, but I know God still has a plan for everyone involved in this tragedy. I miss you, Miller, and I hope to see you again in heaven one day.
The second difficult thing that happened was that I broke up with my long-term girlfriend. Out of respect for both of our privacy, I’m not going to discuss the details, but while it was a hard decision, I believe it was the right one for both of us. I’m wishing her the best in the future.
So newly single and still working on my mental health, I worked the camp job for around three months, ending in August. For a little while, I was lined up for a job in Tennessee (what a shift THAT would have been, huh?), but after that didn’t work out, I found myself in a local Christian school working as a Bible teacher, where I am today!
So, it has been a wild ride over the last two years, and the promise of more wild shifts is on the horizon in 2026. I’m hoping to be more active on social media this year, and I’m especially excited to share that my book, which I’ve been working on for some time, is officially coming out in a few months! Stay tuned for updates.
I was reading a study on the book of Ecclesiastes (Potentially the most depressing book of the Bible). It talked about how, since we know that all things on earth are temporary, we should hold life with open hands, not worry about the future, and trust God to provide for us. That has become my theme verse for this past year and something that I’m hopeful to take into 2026 with me. I’m far from perfect at it (life is stressful), but I try to stick to that mindset when things don’t go as planned.
So I’ll see you all there, and Lord willing, I’ll be able to talk about what he taught me in between now and then.
But until then, my friends, keep telling stories.
William J Fall
Will Fall Writings 