Yea, I know it’s already the new year, 2025, about to be the Year of the Snake or is it about to be your year? My year? Our year? I’ll tell you right now with some confidence that it can’t be everybody’s year. For some, it will be a perfectly ordinary year, for some a kind of tough year, and for others out right total and complete shit year. Some people’s dreams will not come true, they will fail, and hope will be lost and I’m here to tell you that that’s alright.
I, for example, do not have the naivety to believe that this will be the year that changes everything. And again, that’s alright. You can go into a new year skeptical and still work hard at your dream and pursuing the life you want instead of the one you have, all with the knowledge and somewhat certainty that it won’t happen.
This post is for me as much as it is for anyone else out there. The end of a year on social media is one of the most contradictory parts of my life. While I am thrilled that others out there have achieved their career goals, their aspirations, and their financial goals, I can’t help but feel left behind. Or should I say, I can’t help but to feel jealous. I think I like the idea of achieving my goals more than I like the idea of working towards them. The daydreaming kind of takes up what little mental energy I have, so what do I have left to give the actual writing, making, or marketing? Simple answer: I don’t.
Or maybe I need a new dream. Maybe being a successful solo-entrepreneur/writer/blogger/marketing maven with a killer booty and glowing skin isn’t what I should be working towards (or should I say dreaming towards.) Then how come it’s never left me? How come that is the only thing I see in my future (in terms of career aspirations). There are times when I really just want to drop it, kill my darlings, and count my blessings, but I just…can’t.
The point of this blog post? A little bit of catharsis and the hope that if you feel at all like me, this can be the corner of the internet where you don’t feel so alone. It’s ok to not have big news to share at the end of year, it’s ok to just make it through, and it’s ok to keep dreaming.