Hello Readers! Its the last week of 2018. That means we're about to enter a new year. This also means that we're about to see a lot of the 'New Year, New Me' shenanigans. We're also going to see memes with the ladder with the 'success, blessing, etc' written on each step with someone climbing it. So I decided to write a post about the lessons I've learned this year. When I tell you that this post took a lot of thinking and reminiscing over the past, believe me, (I am not kidding you) it did. I reflected on the memories that I could remember from January to December (yes both the good and bad). I thought about the lessons I learned from each experience of mine (even the bad) and I thought of how I could put those lessons in todays blog. Sorry not sorry if you think I'm being deep or emotional lol.
Every year is full of the good and bad times. Every year I see people posting how the new year will 'magically' change them into new and magical beings as if the night of the 31 comes along with fairies granting instant wishes that night. Anyways, 2018 was a humbling and wonderful year for me. I got an associates degree and got accepted into John Jay, I started this blog and I learned so many lessons through my interactions with others and personal experiences. One of the biggest lessons that I've had to learn over the years over and over again is learning to let go. To let go of the bad, the past, the regrets. Going through certain embarrassing and awful experiences in the past have stuck with me and made it difficult for me to forget. I thought that by constantly remembering those experiences, I would be able to toughen myself. I was wrong. I was actually causing myself more pain and harm than good by thinking of the past. so I had to make myself forget. Not only forget but let go. I'd like to put a little note here that forgetting and letting go are two separate things. Forgetting is simply ceasing to think or consider. Letting go however is a separate matter entirely. Letting go is to remove your hold on something. It is to let something be free (in this case, those bad experiences). It was refreshing, having to let go and forget. Because when you let something go, when you release it, you also release yourself from the control those memories and experiences have on you. It is then that you will be truly free.
As you go into the new year, live life to the fullest, let go of the negative and most of all, be the happiest you can be. God knows we all need it.
P.S. Don't expect the 'New Year, New Me' thing from me. Nope. Not Happening. I will still be sarcastic, funny Kaya with a weird sense of humor. Anyways, see you in 2019 loves.
Thanks for sharing!! It came at the right time.
Interesting experiences there. Well! 2019 would be a wonderful year for you. A year filled with fun memories.(don’t forget we are already into 2019 lol)