An Open Letter to 2017
Dear, 2017
In a few short moments the end of 2016 will fall and the new year will start. Here I compose my open letter to the new year. The year 2016 has not been overly cruel to me nor has it been overly amazing either. It has been a year full of letting go and coming to realizations about my life. I am extremely thankful for each moment I had in 2016. Every up and down has brought me closer to knowing what I want to get out of this new year. To 2016, the time I spent looking and searching for all the parts of myself that I thought I knew. Finding parts of me hidden away from even myself. There is so much more I need to know. Now, I have the tools to start my task for the year ahead. So, here I go. 2017, you have a rough road ahead and a tough act to follow after the year that has come to past. Many will want the year before you to be wiped from the books but I do not and I have faith in you. You can say its odd to have faith in time but I do. As I sit here and type out this post and watch as the clock counts down to the new year, I know that time is what we make it. In a way having faith in time is having faith in yourself that you can be the change you want to be. I have spent the year letting go of crazy notions I hidden so deeply that I didn't even realize that I had been holding on to. In the shadows, I was beating self for what my life had become. Why, couldn't it be the way I thought it would be? It's not that simple nor is it that black and white. Things sound so good on paper or in your head but in action so many variables in life that make changes. Now, I am faced with the reality of my self induced torture that I was not even looking for when I started my journey. To confess I didn't think would still be single by my 29th birthday but I am and I`m learning to accept it. The year 2016 taught me that I can no longer just let it sit there and do nothing. I have to face it head on and accept myself as a whole so that I can be the change I want to be.With the year 2017 comes a new year and another year older I become. Do I have it all figured out ? No, the answer is no! I don`t but its ok. I am not sure I will ever really get it all figured out and the person who tells you they do is a liar. They may have it figured out what's in front of them but there is no true way to have it all figured out. It's alright because we have to keep moving. Why, because I now know what I need to do in order to heal that broken and bruised part of me. I have to take every step for me and no one else. So , 2017 we are going to heal and grow into more of the person I want to be. I know that life is what I make it and no one can write my story better than me. 2017, may you be as kind to me as I am to you. For that is all I can ask for. I wont go into New Years resolutions for that is not what I am making nor am I asking for them. I am making myself a priority and a promise to take what I have learned form 2016 and put into motion the knowledge I have gained. My open letter to 2017 is a promise to be better than I was before and to love harder than I ever have. I am more that what I let myself believe. No more feeling ashamed of myself when I'm alone in my mind. Everything happens for a reason and life is what you do when those things happen. I had been shaken to my core in years past and had to create myself again. I can no longer let the fear of things stop my life. When those events happen you are left with very few things. This year has shaken so many of us and my hope for the new year is that we are brought back to basics. See you later 2016 and its time to get to work 2017.
In a few short moments the end of 2016 will fall and the new year will start. Here I compose my open letter to the new year. The year 2016 has not been overly cruel to me nor has it been overly amazing either. It has been a year full of letting go and coming to realizations about my life. I am extremely thankful for each moment I had in 2016. Every up and down has brought me closer to knowing what I want to get out of this new year. To 2016, the time I spent looking and searching for all the parts of myself that I thought I knew. Finding parts of me hidden away from even myself. There is so much more I need to know. Now, I have the tools to start my task for the year ahead. So, here I go. 2017, you have a rough road ahead and a tough act to follow after the year that has come to past. Many will want the year before you to be wiped from the books but I do not and I have faith in you. You can say its odd to have faith in time but I do. As I sit here and type out this post and watch as the clock counts down to the new year, I know that time is what we make it. In a way having faith in time is having faith in yourself that you can be the change you want to be. I have spent the year letting go of crazy notions I hidden so deeply that I didn't even realize that I had been holding on to. In the shadows, I was beating self for what my life had become. Why, couldn't it be the way I thought it would be? It's not that simple nor is it that black and white. Things sound so good on paper or in your head but in action so many variables in life that make changes. Now, I am faced with the reality of my self induced torture that I was not even looking for when I started my journey. To confess I didn't think would still be single by my 29th birthday but I am and I`m learning to accept it. The year 2016 taught me that I can no longer just let it sit there and do nothing. I have to face it head on and accept myself as a whole so that I can be the change I want to be.With the year 2017 comes a new year and another year older I become. Do I have it all figured out ? No, the answer is no! I don`t but its ok. I am not sure I will ever really get it all figured out and the person who tells you they do is a liar. They may have it figured out what's in front of them but there is no true way to have it all figured out. It's alright because we have to keep moving. Why, because I now know what I need to do in order to heal that broken and bruised part of me. I have to take every step for me and no one else. So , 2017 we are going to heal and grow into more of the person I want to be. I know that life is what I make it and no one can write my story better than me. 2017, may you be as kind to me as I am to you. For that is all I can ask for. I wont go into New Years resolutions for that is not what I am making nor am I asking for them. I am making myself a priority and a promise to take what I have learned form 2016 and put into motion the knowledge I have gained. My open letter to 2017 is a promise to be better than I was before and to love harder than I ever have. I am more that what I let myself believe. No more feeling ashamed of myself when I'm alone in my mind. Everything happens for a reason and life is what you do when those things happen. I had been shaken to my core in years past and had to create myself again. I can no longer let the fear of things stop my life. When those events happen you are left with very few things. This year has shaken so many of us and my hope for the new year is that we are brought back to basics. See you later 2016 and its time to get to work 2017.
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