Year’s End
Another year has flown by quickly, though during the presidential election it seemed like 2008 would never, ever end. But on cue, the calendar pages have faithfully flipped by and we are two days away from 2009.
I didn’t learn any personal grandiose, scary lessons this year (thankfully), but I did stick to one mantra I’d invoke when I first started this blog: namely to be and to surround myself with grown ups. I have done just that, and 2008 proved less stressful, friendship wise, than years previous. That invocation forced another change I had been working on for some time: the creation of boundaries. How terribly important this one thing has been to me! “No,” rolls of my tongue with ease now; not in a mean-spirited way, but in a way that says, “this is beyond what i can or want to do.”
My biggest wish for the new year is to keep growing and seeing. The latter encompasses everything and really means to keep observing what is good and bad for me and making healthy, honest decisions thereafter. Despite some wishes not coming true yet, 2008 felt freer for me and I can only hope that feeling expands in 2009.
Happy New Year.
Here's to a year of healthy Nos and warm yeses X