Happy New Year
It’s 2020! A well- rounded number, hopefully, a well-rounded blessing for each and every one of us.
Usually, towards the end of the year or beginning of a new year, comes a solemn period of reflection, a period where you evaluate your good and bad deeds, success and shortcomings and likewise, what you’re grateful for and also what needs to be changed for the better
If you ask me, these reflective periods are normally the most anticipated and monumental aspects of ending a year and beginning a new one.
With that said, I’ve carefully curated the things I’m most grateful about in the year 2019 some of which involve a few regrets, hope, success, shortcomings, but mostly being alive to anticipate for more as I approach the new year.
I’m grateful for;
- That I still have my family and relatives alive and well. Family First.
- An eye-opening, self-discovery year filled with imploring several self-improvement techniques like self-awareness and mindfulness which have helped me more towards developing strongly mentally and emotionally. You need every aspect of your life balanced in order to thrive better in life.
- Having the boldness to publish my articles for the first time for public consumption. Thanks to the Medium for the medium to do so. Writing uplifts the soul of the writer and the reader.
- Coming to an understanding that money isn’t necessarily the root of evil but the mindset that surrounds acquiring and using it. The fear of losing money or going broke is the beginning of wisdom but the ease in managing it well is worth trying.
- Understanding the need to save money by enduring the habitual urge of spending “sporadically” on things I don’t need when I could save it for rainy days.
- Learning to be patient and extremely enduring of hard situations while allowing it mold me into something I’m meant to than what I elusively fight to be and believing that it’ll pass eventually. Patience isn’t about waiting but what you do whilst at it.
- Being brave and taking bold steps to be different but at the same time attuned with who I really am — hoping to be a source of inspiration to another person. Be different but a good type of different that is beneficial to both you and others around you.
- Understanding the importance of serving in order to lead. In order to lead, you need to serve.
- That life truly isn’t a bed of roses, doesn’t revolve around me and is meant to suck as F. What makes the difference is how you choose to handle it. Life will serve you with a lot of things expectedly and unexpectedly, be ready and make the best of both when it comes.
- There are other things to seek in life besides happiness which could be a sense of purpose, progress with something, fulfillment, contentment, and growth etcetera thus says one of my favorite writers Jessica WildFire.
- Everyone needs love and attention — both men and women, children and adults, parents and kids. Attention is the reason why we’re noticed by others for the work of our hands, it’s only bad when the quest for it is abused.
- Understanding that silence hurts people who don’t understand your innermost being but is golden to people who do. Silence still remains the best answer to a fool, choose silence over I’ll-speaking.
- And when I thought it was done, that I found a man who truly loves me beyond the word and never fails to show it both when needed and not. A man God decided to use to put a smile on my face constantly; putting to rest all the years of countless relationship agonies. Love is a beautiful thing but with the right person.
- And more…
I hope you had things to be grateful for too, at least one little seemingly flimsy thing. Search well within yourself and you’ll find but if you can’t, it’s okay, you’re lucky to still be living up till now and hence, fit to hope that this new year, something will cause you to be grateful.
That job you couldn’t get last year, you could get this year.
That start-up you couldn’t accomplish last year, you could this year.
That relationship that gave you tough times last year could be your last tough one.
That stability you so much seek in every area of your life you couldn’t get yet, you could enjoy having this year.
That promotion, sickness, family set-back you name it…
With these, comes living and with living comes truly experiencing the beautiful part of life too.
You need to just believe
That this year, the dead bones shall rise again.
Happy New Year! Congratulations on making it thus far!.
