The Most Fulfilling New Year's Resolution You Can Have

To enjoy each of the 365 and see the unique lessons that each day presents. That’s my New Year’s resolution. Every day is a chance to love, to embrace other humans, and to embrace being human. I have no idea what 2025 has in store but if it was anything like 2024 I know this year will be formative. I can’t say 2024 was all good but through it all both the easy and difficult I’ve grown as a human being. There were moments of triumph but there were also moments of hardship, days where it was easy to feel that life was nothing close to a blessing. But through it all we made it, we survived to 2025 and I want to dedicate this post to you, for I know I am not the only one. I know I am not the only one who failed, learned, suffered,  and adapted in 2024. I also know I am not the only one who looks ahead to 2025 wondering what these days will bring me, whether it is good or bad am I ready for it?

For me, 2024 was marked by change. I got promoted at my job, I started a new adventure with college, I made new friends, and I learned how much I could get used to circumstances that only a year prior would have seemed so strange to me. I also learned that all my desires for what I thought I needed to be happy were lies, and that deep down all I ever wanted was to be comfortable in my skin and confident in who I am. That’s my resolution for 2025, to have fulfillment as a starting point. I think we all need to give ourselves a break and allow ourselves to do that. No more waiting on an accomplishment or a person to fulfill you, you can be so much happier than you know if you just look at the person in the mirror, as broken and confused as that person is, and give that person a warm hug, cherish the gift of life you have been blessed to take care of, love the person who stares back at you in the mirror. Once you do this you will be much more at peace, and then it becomes so much easier to treat people the way they should be treated, with respect and civility. So here’s to 2025, when you look back at this a year from now you won’t even believe you were the same person. As much as words fail to give justice to what my heart feels I write anyway, as much as smiles can be dishonest and hopes can sometimes seem pointless I embrace 2025 anyway. Because at the end of the day what matters is you show up, broken yet beautiful, uncertain yet promising, let 2025 know exactly who you are and who you want to become.