Hello!
When I was a child, I loved to start new folders. Preferably in school and at home. Organizing and starting something new are still things I like to do to this day. It gives me a great feeling to have the choice to start fresh. A new day, a new book, a new organizer, a new moleskin notebook and whatnot. The same goes for the new year. You leave the old one behind and start nice and fresh – with or without New Year’s resolutions. Honestly, these resolutions never worked for me. From “Tonight I smoke my last cigarette” to “I start working out every day in the new year” made me fall back in my old habits sooner or later. Okay, I did quit smoking for good about four years ago now but not due to a New Year’s resolution. (yaaay!)
The great things about the New Year is that it is a blank, clean slate. We do have the opportunity to start new every single day, right? To remove all the negativity and replacing it with positivity, lessons we have learned, love and happiness. I think with the approaching new year it is just extra special. As I sit here and write, I think and like to reflect on 2015. These 12 months were very special, filled with traveling, changes and challenges. I enjoy these last couple of hours with my parents and my son. My husband is back in Congo and we cannot be together today. Thankfully, he made it back without any trouble. I am thinking also about the next 12 months ahead and what the new year will bring. Looking back at my little blog here and how far it has grown since I started writing in March is amazing and I thank you all for reading and sticking around.
I say goodbye to 2015 and beautiful views, awesome travels, beautiful moments, wonderful days, sunsets and sunrises. But also storms, arguments, tough decisions and changes. Looking at all this I am taken back to all those particular days, scenes and times when they indeed did occur. All these memories are good memories and I don’t want to miss them. They made me to what I am today. I think it is important to reflect on the past year – everything that was good, bad or even ugly and to learn from the experiences. We live and learn and should be able to grow from what we have learned, right? Be thankful and to love.
I am thankful for my family, for my parents and siblings, grandparents, uncle, aunt cousins, nephews and friends. Thank you 2015 for everything I have learned and I welcome 2016 with whatever it will bring. Canada, University, moving, studying, writing and whatnot. I am looking forward to all this and new adventures. I hope you all have a wonderful, exciting, weird, crazy and enlightening 2016 that will bring you joy, peace, fun and love.
Happy New Year!
Thank you for reading my blog.
