I’m not a fan of the cliche of the “New Year”.  I don’t make resolutions, I don’t eat black eyed peas for good luck, I don’t see it as anything more than another day that I get double time for at work. 

But I do believe in reflection.  I believe that you should look back at the year and decide what you want to keep and what you want to get rid of.  Choose who you want to be in the next year after the lessons learned the year before. 

This year was pretty uneventful for me.  I did learn that I love my husband more than anyone on earth.  Even in the bad times he is the one I count on, the one I run to.  Nothing can or will ever change that.  I learned that just because someone is family doesn’t mean that you have to like what they do, or keep your mouth shut about it either.  I learned that old friends re-enter your life and do so for a reason.  I learned that other friends take a step back and keep their distance, like it or not. 

I learned that someone else’s hurt, anger and hatefullness is not worth my own.  Just because someone chooses to act that way towards me doesn’t mean that I have to be hurt or angry over the situation. 

I think I became stronger this year.  Stronger in my believe in myself and those I’ve chosen to place around me.  Stronger in the ability to choose who I want in my life, bound by blood or marriage, or not.  This year was about lessons in choice, lessons in growth of personal character. 

Toast to next year and the will to keep moving forward in life, to keep learning about oneself and the world around them.

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