Discovery
01.15.2025
Hi everyone,
Welcome to 2025! What a beautifully chaotic year 2024 was. As the 1-year anniversary of my blog approaches at the end of the month, I am overwhelmed with the love I have received by simply putting my thoughts on paper (or a virtual version of it at least). I appreciate you all and thank you for reading for this year. This blog has come to mean so much to me and the opportunity to write how I feel is something I have immense passion for. However, over this year, there are things I have come to realize that I would like to change about the format going forward. Starting with this post, each post will be published on the 15th of every month to give myself and everyone a more succinct experience. I am also going to start trying to engage and post more on my social media for this blog. I cannot express the gratitude I have for each of you that take the time to read these posts and all I can say is thank you for sharing your time and energy with me and I am looking forward to what 2025 will bring each of us! Anyways, onwards to the meat and potatoes of this post lol.
Well, I think we can all say that 2024 was a crazy mess for all of us. Luckily, we have made it through and are on the other side! To quote iconic Elle Woods, “We did it!”. As we enter a new year, this phenomenon happens where all of us have “resolutions” where we enter the new year with this mindset that this is the year that I will ______. And while this is a beautiful thing that I find endearing about humans, I recently saw a post before the new year that said “instead of creating resolutions that will more than likely fall through this next year, choose a theme instead” I like this version better. I feel like this mindset takes the pressure off quitting something cold turkey or beginning something that you are not fully prepared for, only to feel horrible after it doesn’t pan out well (There’s a reason the second Friday of January is called “Quitters Friday”). And as many of us are, I am no stranger to the appeal of reinventing myself; however, I have realized as I have gotten older, that it is not so simple to just do a 180. So instead of putting myself through the truly unnecessary stress of creating a resolution and trying to stick to it over the next 365 days, I have chosen to instead put forth energy into a thematic year. So, for 2025, this year’s theme is simply “Discovery”. I have honestly put quite a lot of thought into what I wanted my theme to be, I could not seem to find a word that encapsulated everything I wanted to achieve this year, or on the opposite end of the spectrum, put too many restrictions on what I wanted, but I believe discovery is almost like an open-ended question. There is no correct answer to discovery. All it asks is to search, to learn something new, to find. And I love this for I have many options to discover something new, from travelling to a new place, to as easy as discovering something new about myself. This theme has many opportunities, and this is why it appeals to me.
For 2025, there are many exciting things coming up in my life that I am expectantly looking forward to, but there is also a note of nervousness as well. From being all the way across the country from my family and everything I have known, to entering a new semester of college. All these things, no matter how big or small, strike the alarm bells in my mind for reasons unknown to me, however the theme of discovery seems to hold a sense of comfort to me. For discovery is about pushing through the uncomfortableness to achieve something new. One thing about me is that, regardless of how nervous or unsettled I may feel, I am more than likely going to push through and give it my best shot. Now sometimes, this is more a curse than a blessing, but I can proudly say that I have done some super cool activities and experienced amazing things due to this ability. Discovery is this ability put to action, and enjoying the experience and pay off from pushing past your comfort levels. I seriously doubt many explorers can say that everything was sunshine and rainbows during their expeditions, but a lot of them discovered something new and attributed to furthering humanity, all due to their ability to push past the doubt and anxiety. I am not going on any world changing expedition any time soon, but my hope is to discover something that may change my world, and that is enough for me to keep pushing myself. Since I am a huge lover of knowledge, my goal is learning more about myself and the world around me, from picking up a book that helps explain human nature or the self, to trying new things that I may never have before, to picking up a new skill, these things can all contribute to the theme I have chosen. I like to believe that if you are open to good things and contribute positive energy to your surroundings, that positivity will come back to you. I think it’s amazing that there is so much to experience in this world, and I am happily accepting whatever opportunity may come my way and putting forth positive feelings so that I may receive them back tenfold. My hope is to discover, in whatever way that may be.
I believe, for everyone reading this, is that 2025 will be the year of joy, happiness, and love for each of you. I hope every one of you do not shy away from opportunities but instead openly accept them and benefits from them. My advice is to maybe try choosing a theme for your year instead of resolutions this time around. I would love to hear what theme you have chosen so that we can discuss throughout the year how we feel like our themes are progressing and what cool things we have experienced. Thank you guys again for everything you have contributed and I look forward to this year for all of us. Thank you for reading and I will see you out there.
- Nat