I may be jumping the gun on this by a couple of days…but…it’s time to talk about the new year. New beginnings, possibilities. Sure it’s cliche, but it’s appropriate. This past year has been strange, uncomfortable, painful, joyful, wonderful, and above all else, educational. It’s been a year I’ve spent reflecting on my past and my mistakes…and treating them as misfortunes. No more. I’ve found that in doing so, you become stagnant, stuck, selfish and arrogant. If you are constantly looking over your shoulder, you can’t see the road ahead of you. Thus, you deny yourself the ability to live the life you want to live. You pine for what you don’t have, and ignore what you do. It’s an incredibly painful lesson to learn, and to those I’ve hurt along the way I am truly, truly sorry. This being the time of year for resolutions, I can’t resolve to quit smoking (though I know I should), I resolve to make things right. I resolve to be a better person, a better human, a better me.
