Goodbye 2016

Do you know that feeling when a year passes by and a new one comes, and you see everyone talking about it and making new resolutions but you’re not? You think about your previous resolutions, what you did last year and what you want to do differently this time. You’re thinking to yourself: what are the things i’ve done that made me a better person? gave me a better life? Did i help someone in any way?...

When you can’t provide answers to these questions, you’re stuck with this incomplete list, half of your goals not checked. You start to blame yourself for all the things you said would do but didn’t... Stop it. That’s okay. Even if you can’t recall much, you surely have learnt and achieved some goals. You surely are in a way more mature and more self confident. You made mistakes and leant from them. You got to know new people and accept their differences a little more. You stepped out of your comfort zone at least once. You laughed, cried... and oveall lived! You don’t have to achieve much in a year to feel good. All you have to do is live your life the way you feel it, each step at a time. No need for stress, no need for a ticking clock counting down to the end of the year as if you would lose some life game if you dont respect all your resolutions. I used to play that game but i quit! That doesn’t mean that I’m not going to do my best to achieve what i want, it just means that this time i’m doing it differently. And it already feels good :).

Reviews

[Einstein Noodle]

good for you! i am 68 yrs old and have never done the "resolution" thing ..it is all you say it is ..stressful...egregious ...impossible most of the time ..most of those self promises get tossed pretty quick ..and the whole idea takes one out of the eternal moment .. wrestling with either past, future or both :{ nice closing ...surely one must have gone through all those things though we my not remember precisely :) this has a very similar theme as your other story doesn't it!?
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[Saud Maroof]

I think we need at least one happy month and it's important that this month be December, That will solve the heartache of a s****y year, Do you agree?

i like your optimism

[My writings231]

Hi Saud,

Thanks for your review!
I agree, a month to recap is always needed :)