What happened in your life in 2012?

My longest relationship was entirely in the spring and summer of 2012. It wasn't exactly the happiest time, I think they were looking for something a lot more serious than I was.

I was 18 and had almost no money, learning programming, but mostly wasting time on reinventing garbage. I had finally moved away from PICs and started working in Arduino, and doing some Python, but it would be a few more years before I stopped doing stuff like building my own backup solutions.

2013 was much better, I got a somewhat decent job, but my mental health was still not great(Although much better than 2012 and before).

My hair started falling out by 11 or 12 and was all gone by 16, and that was always pretty much the defining element of my personal life until much later when I really doubled down on focusing 100% of my time on work.

It would probably prompt more answers, if there was some context as to why you ask? But, in my case, I stopped looking for "permanent" jobs, and realized that (as a programmer, anyway) I actually preferred temporary contract work.