Every year starts out the same, you make a list of resolutions, or things you wish to accomplish in the new year, and one by one, they're never accomplished. That's always the case, for me at least. So for this new year, I won't be setting a single new years resolution, or any goals at all. Don't get me wrong- I am beyond thrilled for 2017. It's a fresh new start, a blank slate to make new memories and take new chances. A new year to make mistakes, and make great new victories. But I want the way I accomplish things to be completely unplanned- and for my life to take place the way its meant to.
One of the greatest lessons I learned in 2016, as morbid as it sounds, is that if you don't set any high expectations for yourself, you'll never be disappointed. As 2016 continued on, I realized that my goals of working out consistently, being a better student, becoming more accepting, saving my money, and remaining true to myself were all a lot harder to achieve when you wrote them down. And its not that I never tried to complete these goals, I just later on realized that keeping them as a small mental note, and not an overall goal of the year was much more productive. Trying to plan out what I wanted to achieve overwhelmed me and I lost sight of what I actually wanted to do.
I thought long and hard about what I wanted to achieve in 2017, achieve better grades, make more friends, go out more, find a new talent and every other new year cliche you could think of. But I came to the conclusion that, I should just take every new day in 2017 as a fresh start on its own. I'm not going to overwhelm myself with things that should happen naturally, like new relationships or long lasting memories.
2016 was a wild roller coaster, and in the first half, I planned like a maniac, desperately seeking change in every area of my life. And in the second half of 2016, and as things got more hectic, I let life take its intended toll on me. Whatever is meant to happen will be, everything does happen for a reason and that's what I plan on remembering for 2017.
