I slept in super late today and have been trying to decide if I wanted to blog my thoughts or some pretty pictures and couldn’t decide. So now you get both.
I always feel like I’m missing something when the new year comes around…
I’m reading all these posts from the last few days (catching up on blogs) about how excited everyone is for the new year. Making resolutions, goals, hopes and dreams for the coming 365 days.
And as the time changes from one year to the next…
I feel no different.
Whatever the mental thing is that makes everyone feel different from one second to the next on new years eve has passed on over me. I’m always hoping and expecting some grand and exciting to happen on the first, ya know? Some epiphany will just jump out and hit me in the head. It happens, rarely. But never on the first.
I think I’m expecting too much out of it. I think there are other times that are more exciting than switching from one year to the next. Am I suddenly a different person just because the number(s) of the year change? No. I’m not.
Ah well.
For me, I’d rather make new goals on my birthday. That seems like a whole new year to me. It’s more exciting to turn a year older, to get new privileges, to be looked down upon less as we age (okay, really…I always feel like people take you less seriously when you’re of ‘college’ age.) To be honest, I never really feel that different after my birthday either, but it seems more appropriate in my mind, to make goals then. However, my birthday is mere days after the new year, so really…it’s all the same.
♥Have you made goals this year? Even though I haven’t, I would love to read yours! Send me a link.
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I like New Year’s because it gives you a new start and helps you think of ways you can improve your life/yourself. Even though it’s just a number, it still encourages people to make changes. I think setting goals on your birthday makes more sense though because that makes it personal to you.
I wrote about some goals on my blog. I have a lot of little goals, but I mostly want to stress less, continue to workout, journal/write more and go back to college.
By the way, I have a letter I wrote you. For some reason, it keeps getting returned back to you, but I’ll try sending it out again.
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Loving the thoughts you shared in this post!
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Lovely blog and I can relate to what you said. I like your inspirations. Lovely really.
I have a few goals this year. I never thought of making any before. I just go on day to day without even thinking it through but thanks to your blog post I have thought about it a bit. I would like to get a job by September. I would like a day to go by without feeling down. I would like to take the negative talk out of my head. I want to focus on gratitude. I never truly focus on it and really believe that I should be grateful and believe 100%. Harder said then done but thanks for your lovely blog post. I think i will make a list of things that I am grateful for and post it everywhere in my home to remind me and that way the negative chatter in my head will one day disappear!
Have a great week!
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