Looking back to see if there was more laughter than tears this past year

Hello there mates!

That’s an additional 12 months practically accomplished and dusted for us all. Some highs, some lows, as is wont to take place every yr.

If you glimpse back again on your yr and come across a lot more highs than lows, a lot more laughter than tears, then you’ve had a good calendar year 🙂

For the most part, existence has been great to me. It hasn’t often been clean sailing (whose is?), and there are instances and occasions that make me problem my selections and judgment. But if at all there is anything I have learnt from my journey via 2022, is that often, your prayers are not answered in the straightforward fashion you imagine they would be.

Daily life has been quite great to me this calendar year, and I am thankful and grateful for the encounters I have experienced, the bridges I’ve constructed, and the options I have been afforded. Alongside the way, considerably else has occurred as very well, that were being not as constructive.

It is these not-extremely-beneficial times that give you pause, and give you a moment of regret. But it is also in these not-incredibly-positive times that you figure out what you genuinely want, or how you actually want to transfer ahead.

There have been a several of these roadblocks this earlier yr, that pressured me to stop and contemplate the forks in the highway. I just can’t say people eventual selections designed had been uncomplicated kinds, but they have been produced.

Along the way also, I gave some considered to prayers, to search for divine steerage on how to offer with difficulties. That led me to a curious realization that from time to time, when we inquire the universe for things, we don’t believe of how those people needs are granted.

It is not as if a magic wand is waved, and your difficulties magically disappear. In some cases, you are compelled to confront people troubles head on, or even have a lot more unresolved troubles introduced to mild, just so you are ready to view it all in totality just before you are ready to discover a comprehensive remedy.

Sometimes, it feels like wave right after wave of dejection washing about you, ahead of you are at last equipped to resurface for a breather. But when you do, it is with a clearer, a lot more uncluttered head, and a renewed feeling of intent.

It is reminded me that you shouldn’t question for a problem to go away. You should really request for knowledge to come across a resolution to the issue you have. It is like that aged proverb of educating a man to fish, as opposed to providing him a fish. With the latter, you slap a bandaid on the quick difficulty, but never solve it. With the former, you take a phase to clear up the root cause of the challenge, and support locate a longterm resolution.

It is this obscure optimism that I shall have forward into the new 12 months. A reminder that we are in a position to dig ourselves out of a hole, if we can locate the equipment, or if someone will support hand us the instruments.

But 2022 was not all doom and gloom as I would enable you believe 😀

It experienced its highlights as effectively, in the type of surviving the dreaded Covid-19. Oh of course, it strike me suitable when I minimum anticipated to, soon after 3 several years of having added precautions. I was fortunate to not have it as terribly as I predicted to, but I am excess careful to not get it all over again. That signifies continual masking and preventing crowds and improperly ventilated spots. I still live my daily life as most effective I can, but in as nicely-ventilated an region as I possibly can!

I have also had heaps of adventures with my furkid, and even rescued a different alongside the way! She’s rather a good deal of do the job, and I can not deny that I have my times when I get incredibly irritated or upset with her. But, there are times when we look at her, and all her attendant professional medical challenges, and question just how tough life was for her in advance of we fulfilled. I had my hopes that she would obtain a new permanently property, but with all her many healthcare requirements, it appears like we’ll have to be that home for her.

I also took a very little jaunt overseas to Bangkok for the initial time in 2 decades! It was a attractive time used taking in and making the most of all the small items about getting absent on getaway that you fall short to recognize until eventually you shed access to it!

On the web site front, I have gotten much more repeated in my writing, placing up a submit once a 7 days at the very least. I manufactured a acutely aware final decision to, in order to preserve my hand in. This is my artistic space, and I never want to shed it!

On the social facet, I have manufactured the mindful work to step again from the glare of social media. I have battled with it for much too extended, and I’ve come to accept that I’m not reduce out to be that kind of innovative 😛 I know that’s what all the advertisers want, but I guess not all of us are lower out for that either! 🙂 Incidentally, this was some thing I wrote about in January 2022, in my opening post of this 12 months. It is for that reason fitting that I near off this 12 months, with this identical business final decision to stage back again, and let go 🙂

I do continue to pop by from time to time on Instagram, just to remind absolutely everyone of my running a blog existence LOL! I do like that folks locate it a lot easier to chat there, which is comprehensible, as you have direct entry to a individual, contrary to via the remark box. I realised a when ago that remaining that type of articles creator, that just about necessitates that you are a dancing, enjoyable, engaging, entertaining offer who is not worried to be in front of the digital camera and to share your existence with all and sundry, is not very for me. But it’s taken me until now to acknowledge that that is Ok, and I can just do my detail in my possess speed, at my very own time, in my very own way. If social media fails, you know where to come across me – suitable in this article 🙂

On equilibrium, there have been additional laughter than tears for me, so that indicates it is been a great calendar year. It is also intriguing that I communicate about stability, for that was what I wished for early this year – for harmony. I never think I got that harmony I was hunting for, but I will be doing the job on it in the coming year 🙂

I hope you much too loved far more sunshine than rain, extra rainbows than dark clouds, and more smiles than frowns this past yr 🙂

Thank you for staying in this article with me, and for looking through my web site, and know that your engagement with me will usually provide a smile to my facial area 🙂

xoxo

Paris B