Who you are today is
not who you were yesterday, nor who you will be tomorrow. Change is constant.
Change will always happen whether you ask for it or not. Everyday your reality
changes. Your values and ideals evolve or diminish. You can't help this, it's
just a fact of life and no matter how much you try and run away from it or
ignore it, it's still there. Now this may seem cheesy since we're nearing the
end of the year, but the end of the year always gets me thinking. You see all
the cliché end of the year posts on social media about who you started the year
with versus who you are ending your year with. Have you ever thought about who
YOU were when the year began and who YOU are now that it's almost over?
I know I do every
year. Maybe my appearance doesn't change, but everything else sure does. I know
that what I expect out of life changes every year. I know my definition of
happiness changes with what each year brings me. I know that the way I value my
friends changes every year, and I grow a new appreciation for those that stick
around year after year. I know that my definition of love has been altered
after the last 365 days. Each year I tend to value my parents more and more. I
mature within every year, whether I tried to or not.
Everyone makes
change sound so bad all the time. It isn't. Every year is full of so many
struggles that change you. I've had past friendships fail and blamed on the
both of us for changing. I've had my parents compare this years me to the me
three years ago, because I am a totally different person. We all evolve and
grow into a different person each year. Maybe not all at once, but little
things day by day allow you to change. Stop resisting the change. Stop trying
to be who you use to be. You are who you have become because of the hardships
and even luxuries life has given you.
I'm not saying that
you should wake up January 1st and decide that you're going to be completely
different than you were December 31st. I'm just saying love yourself and who
you've fought to become. Appreciate this past year and those before it that
allowed you to be where you're at now. If you're currently in a hardship try
and embrace because one day you will look back on it and be thankful. Lastly,
stop ending your year with the clichés about the people you began and ended
with. None of that matters, the people are a part of the change and growth as
well. Instead of focusing on the people who hurt you, left you, or were just
added to your life in a negative energy, credit them as the ones who allowed
you to grow as a person and change as a person. So as the year is ending just
stop and think about everything you've done In the past year, who you became
this year, and about how all the people and things you went through this year
that helped you get to where you are right now.
Over and Out,
B
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