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The ‘New Year’ post!  This year, I won’t be posting my resolutions (although if you so desire, you can ask me and I will tell you them in private).  All in all, 2010 was a pretty great year for me.  I won’t bore all four of my readers with the month by month play back, but it was a year filled with more positives than negatives for me.  Maybe it’s because I actually did follow some of my 2009 resolutions, of being more positive, focusing on myself.  Maybe it’s because I’m in a new part of my life, where I can forget about the people who don’t give a damn and surround myself with the people who do.  Maybe it’s because 2010 made me a stronger person, so that I was able to take on the challenges life handed me.

The big one, of course.  High school is over.  I’m quite glad of that.  I fell like we parted on a mutual note, both of us knowing that my time was over.  I finished strong, but I didn’t encounter what many of my graduating class felt.  I didn’t feel the connection to the school or the class.  I’ll visit, every once in a while.  I’ll go see the marching band and the jazz band.  But even when I feel the small pangs of missing it, I know I don’t want to be back there.  College has shown me where I really belong.  In one semester, I learned a lot about myself.  I grew, a lot.  I met some pretty amazing people who love me for me.  I feel like now, I can follow my dreams and not have to deal with the limitations of coming from a small, public, but very religious high school.

2010 was change.  It was the definition of change.  I became an adult in the eyes of the law, graduated one school and started another.  Those who were once enemies became friends, and those who were once friends became enemies.  Some people close to me faced the biggest challenges that any of us had ever seen, challenging all of us.  Life became real, for everyone involved.

I think 2011 is going to be a big year.  I hope so, at least.  I knew last year that 2010 was going to be a big year, and I was right.  After all, any year filled with life changing events can be considered big.   2011 has the potential to be huge, even better than last year.  We can move past the tragedies of last year, the ones that were international, national, local, and personal.  We can become better, stronger people.  We can become better members of a global community that needs our help.  We can all find that thing that makes us passionate, that thing that makes us believe in hope and change again.  We can all be helped and healed and saved.  We can all be the helper, the healer, and the savior.

The beautiful thing about a new year is that it gives us all the new, blank page to write on when we think that our last piece can’t handle anymore of our scribbles.  There is a great vastness about a new year.  It can become so many different things, many of which are whatever the writer decides to make it.