New year, same me?

 New year, same me?

For a lot of people the new year's turns a new chapter in life, that it's time to change and for new beginnings to bloom, hence, new years resolutions. I admit, I too was once ever so hopeful that maybe the new year will make changes easier but for this year I started to wonder if I really am content with a new year, same me.

Why? I worked so hard in 2024, I achieved everything I wanted to attain coming into that year and I finished my grade 9 feeling accomplished. But now, everything feels like a downgrade from last year, my overall performance seems to have regressed and I can't help but feel disappointed that I couldn't exceed or even match my previous accomplishments. Disappointment after disappointment, I slowly started to make an excuse for everything, that this year was my rest, but as time goes on, I started to see the hypocrisy in that.

I should never be complacent ever again, I should be grateful for my blessings while at the same time still striving to outdo myself. I will welcome 2025's challenges head on, and blame nothing else but myself when I stumble, I will never ever be content being someone who has proven nothing. I won't let myself be outdone by my previous years, I will always aim to improve, enhance, and refine myself.

Reference:

12 personal growth ideas. taken at:https://www.virtuesforlife.com/12-personal-growth-ideas/

Complacency found.. will you cure it? taken at:https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/complacency-foundwill-you-cure-solomon-sisay

My homecoming

 Homecoming: My holiday experience 

Wow, it's been a long holiday, and yet, Somehow it feels like it's over in the blink of an eye. Feels like just yesterday I was partying the celebration of Christmas and New year and here I am now writing my first blog of the 3rd quarter. My holiday consisted my family and I going back home to Manila and Rizal to spend our holiday with our close friends and family after not seeing them for a whole year, as we live all the way in Vigan City more than 7 hours away from them. Yet, the bonds we've made with them never seemed to relinquish, despite not seeing them for a whole year, the second we met again and actually started to spend time with each other it felt like we never really left. It was a long 10 days of vacation that gave us plenty of memories that left me excited for our next trip back.

Childhood friends: They are so interesting, on the way over, I actually started to get nervous to meet them again, the thought that maybe the connection just wasn't there anymore, that we outgrew eachother and that our friendship was a thing of the past, it just always lingered on the back of my mind. Yet, when we met, all the memories, all the connections, all the bonding, that we have made all throughout my 13 years of living there all came rushing back, we were talking like we hadn't spent a whole year not talking to eachother and despite only spending 1 day with them, it felt like I was a child once again. Their goodbye's as we were leaving almost made me shed a tear, im not an emotional person, but their farewells hit deep as the realization starts to hit that these people made me, that they are friends for life. The saying really is true "No one has a friend like when they were a kid, they will spend their whole life trying to replace their childhood friends and yet, they never truly will" there is no doubt in my mind that I will truly miss them.

Of course, last but certainly not the least, the whole reason we spend the holidays, for our family: these are the people who will undoubtedly have our back when we need it the most, the people who we share blood with through thick and think they will always be there. The holidays is our chance to celebrate new beginnings while respecting our traditions with the ones who truly care about us.

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