01/06/2024
It is a bit late, and a bit sober, and in love. Two outta three ain't bad.
2023 was a year of curves. Curveballs, learning curves, paths less traveled and unexpected sidequests. 2023 was a year that has tested my resolve and made crystal clear in the best ways the community in my corner and the value I still can't always see in myself. 2023 was a year for surviving, a year for thriving, a year for adapting and overcoming and simply sitting curled on the couch being introduced to things I'd never seen before. 2023 is a year I will never regret or give back in my memory, 2023 was the year I learned that I could matter to myself without anyone else mattering less. 2023 was a year for my love of details.
Now on we go to 2024. 2024 is clearly going to test the resolve I've come to already, the boundaries I'm trying to practice holding without weaponizing, the priorities I have chosen for myself going forward. It is always so much easier to do what's expected of you, to fit in the mold, to be plain strawberry jam that surprises and tests no one. There's nothing wrong with plain strawberry jam- it's delicious. But we are not all plain strawberry jam- some of us are strawberry rosemary, some of us are strawberry cayenne, some of us are chocolate strawberry. Sometimes conforming cannot be the thing. And we love those movies and those characters but we don't discuss the sheer force of, if not self love, self-belief, self-awareness, raw conviction that needs to be held to make these stories not just exist, but succeed on the other side.
I hope you surprise yourself this year. I hope you test yourself. I hope you experiment to see what other flavors you go with and never waiver from the flavor you value most.
Here's to 2024🫶
