Slow blogging & the only lesson worth sharing from 2024
So…it has been a little while. My usual commitment of sharing something once a month failed towards the end of last year. And that was despite thinking I had things to share.
Whilst I promise to try harder to share more frequently, at the same time I hope you and I can embrace the idea of slow blogging, where I may not post frantically, there may be some time spent in between my sharing, but I am still here on the sidelines waiting to come back.
To kick off the year, I guess we’ll start with yet another life lesson like I always do. Since I made a home in this little corner of the internet, I’ve been reeling out my own learnings as the year comes to a close. I’m not a resolution kind of person, I’m not even a new year kind of woman actually, given how much I love all other events on the social calendar (all but Halloween. Though, after having children that is also changing). But… I do like to reflect and set goals. Whilst I do my best to adhere to them, I’m not so controlling that I won’t pivot when new information comes to light or be wedded to them much to my detriment.
The last few years were challenging. And I intuitively knew 2024 wasn’t going to be any better. But I am hoping 2025 will be the year of revival and rebirth.
So this is how we end up being so many people in one lifetime.
And how we can end up becoming every woman.
I can’t paraphrase better than the excerpt from poet Mahmoud Darwish which introduces this post…
“Are we what we do with time? Or Are we what time does with us?”
In similar fashion, David Brooks wrote a beautiful book titled Road to Character in which he uses real life examples of famous people and their accomplishments, to show how even if we set off in life hoping to achieve one thing or the other (or even nothing at all because we are confused) life will throw us in situations which will demand we act and grow in a certain way, whether we like it or not….
“...you don’t ask, what do I want from life? You ask a different set of questions: What does life want from me? What are my circumstances calling me to do? In this scheme of things we don’t create our lives; we are summoned by life.”
In essence, the only life lesson worth sharing from 2024 is the realisation that just because you’re forced onto a path you didn’t want to be on, doesn’t mean it can’t become the best thing that ever happened to you. However bittersweet it might be.
Sometimes you must become who you were looking for, do what you were hoping for from someone else, achieve what you were expecting from elsewhere… it’s the realisation that there needs to be play between fate and intention, trust between making plans and serendipity… and belief in a little bit of magic.
And above all else, love and belief in yourself.
Let's see how 2025 turns out for you and I. I’d love to hear about it. Truly. Email me.
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2024
When going through my camera roll, even I should be forgiven to think how could 2024 have been a challenging year. But, as is the sentiment of this whole blog, our lives are about carving out a discerned perspective; learn from the challenges, grow from the hardship, find beauty in the struggle and amplify and celebrate all of the good.
Santé to 2025…
Another life lesson or two…
