Moving on From 2019 — A Tough Year in Review

Brain Tumor, Baby, Public Speaking, Writing, Open Source, and Mountains!

Wajahat Karim
CodeChai
Published in
14 min readJan 18, 2021

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Me giving a talk on Flutter at SMIU University, Karachi

Hello folks, it’s that time of the year (or maybe a little late) where I am supposed to reflect on my past year and make some new year resolution goals. Since I couldn’t write the year in review for the previous year 2019, so this article is going to about that. Next week, I will write the year in review of the year 2020, which has been a lot challenging for everyone around the globe due to Covid-19 pandemic.

I created the outline of this review and planned it about a year ago back in January 2020. But its been in my drafts since then. I tried to write and complete it multiple times throughout the year but I couldn’t. The biggest reason was that it was a year which I never expected and I hope I won’t live that kind of time again in my life ever again. The only reason for this was that my father was diagnosed with rapidly growing brain tumor in that year. Unfortunately he couldn’t survive this and is no longer with us today. He passed away in that unlucky year of 2019.

Every time I wanted to write this year in review, all the horrible memories and things I witnessed came back in my mind. And I just didn’t want to put them in words. But now to continue with my year-in-reviews, I will write both for…

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Wajahat Karim
CodeChai

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