If you were to read one thing this year on the Internet, it truly would not have to be this blog post. As always, this absolutely is my musings from the past year and the insight that I feel I have gathered.
If you do not want to participate in that that is your choice and by all means goodbye. I get it. Especially if you don't want this to be the last thing you read in 2021. Not that it really matters, tomorrow is just another day, that will simply introduce us to 2022.
However, if you do choose to continue reading I will provide you with both the trivial and integral things that have happened to me this year and what I have learned. In fact, I am not going to provide you with only what I have learned from this year, but also what was taught to me in 2020.
(Aka the year that didn’t really happen, but actually did and had huge last impacts on every single one of us.)
All of us alive on this planet now have collective trauma! How fun! but I think living in itself really gives us a collective trauma. It is on the bright side.... in some sense, we got to experience something together.
Ok, I will now stop narrating and begin-
Ugh. Every-time I get back into this blog and start writing again I feel I owe either an explanation of why I haven’t been writing or an apology for my absence.
But instead of that I will just give you the facts: 2020 was absolutely insane, as described in the previous year old post.
At the same time, I think it taught myself quite a few valuable lessons. Now that I have had a year to reflect on these lessons I can retrospectively identify a few of the things I learned. So here is what I have learned from both 2020 and 2021.
1. You can't live in fear. Life can absolutely be scary and you can be scared but you can not live your entire life in fear. This is something recovery taught me, but 2020 quickly reminded me.
2. Value the people in your life. Don't hold grudges. Make time for family.
3. Go to the concert. If you are asked to go to a concert, on a date, to go on an epic vacation, do it. Because you never know when you will be stuck in your house indefinitely.
4. Take walks. Take whatever nature me time breaks you need in life. It is ok not to be ok, you can cry whenever you want and life can be cruel and unfair. But when you feel that way take action, go for a walk, take in beauty, let go and take back your sanity.
5. You can not control people, in any sense of the words. You can give good orderly directions, but if someone does not want to follow your directions or has an idea they think will work better the chances of being able to do anything about it, even at a government level is slim to none.
6. It takes a really long time to truly know someone and you should never think to yourself that you know someone absolutely. However, no matter what length of time it take.
7. Do not let money control your life. This is hard because money creates freedom to do more things. Some of us have to work so many hours to survive. But the pandemic showed us that money and life may or may not be real and it's another thing that attempts to control us.
8. Do what you're passionate about. You may still need to work to survive, but take the time to pursue your passions, at least on your own time. If you have the opportunity to make that your job- fucking do it.
9. Make the world better. There is so much shitty shit in this world. And if you search for it to be shitty, it can be even shitter. Negativity is a deep dark hole and sucks the meaning of life away. Give your life meaning, you can make it whatever you want. You only have one life, as far as we know, so make it a positive one.
10. And finally, nothing really matter! This doesn't have to be discouraging, it can be encouraging! Life may be a simulation but that means you don't have to stick to the status quo. You can do whatever you want, but be a good person in whatever you do.
Those are certainly not all of the things I have learned, and a lot of these are reminder, but that is all I have for now. But I think I will be writing more this year because I will be making sure to remember lesson 8😊.
