A new year is on the way, and the possibilities are endless.
New years are filled with resolutions that are hardly ever met and promises to ourselves that we usually break the next week or sometimes don’t even remember making after the night passes. This year I am not making a list of New Year's resolutions to keep in a jar and accomplish throughout the year because I already know that I’m not going to finish them. My only resolution this New Year's Eve is that in 2017, I choose me.
2016 was a great year with many things accomplished, many things learned, and some hurt, but mostly happiness and big changes. But in 2016, I chose everyone else. My family always practiced that others come before yourself, and you should help everyone that is in need. I couldn’t agree more because this world needs more giving people, but it’s time for me to start choosing, well...me.
I’ve always been the girl to go out of her way to pick up her friends, pick up the slack if someone doesn’t have enough money to pay for their dinner, or help people in need even if I don’t get anything out of it in the end. I love being that girl, but I can’t always be that girl.
This year was one of the hardest that I can think of, transitioning from high school to college, moving away from home, making new friends, and watching people who I thought I would always be by my side come and go. I’m not afraid to admit that it has been hard, and I tried extra hard to keep them in my life, fighting until I couldn’t anymore when they just decided they didn’t care. So in 2017, I choose people who also choose me.
Don’t get me wrong, I lucked out in 2016. I met some amazing people, experienced things that I had never experienced before, and grew up a little, but now that this chapter is closing I’m going to do better come 2017.
There’s no dream too big and no mountain too high in 2017. I’m going to make sure that I take every chance and opportunity I get to make myself better. This year, I’m going to focus. I have so much ahead of me and I can’t lose sight of that. It’s time for me to start thinking about my future and where I really want to be in ten or maybe twenty years. When the clock turns to 12:00 and New Year’s Eve turns into New Year's Day, I’m not going to become a different person, I’m not going to cut people out of my life, and I’m not going to stop eating my favorite junk food, but I am going to start choosing myself and the people who choose me. My life is great, but it could be perfect.
But it all starts with me.
Goodbye 2016, hello 2017.
