2022: My year of Resilience and Stream of Consciousness Writing

Moving my website over to this cleaner template showed me that way more people read my blog than I thought. A grand total of 5! Seeing as that's the case, I've decided that I cannot be nervous posting my writing anymore and that I should just keep going.

On that note, my 2022 motto as it were is to "Just keep swimming." yes, exactly like Dory from Finding Nemo. I finally watched that movie for the first time this past fall. (It is adorable and really well done.)

It's a motto, not a resolution because I don't like New Year's resolutions. They set people up for failure, disappointment and self-loathing. When I was fifteen, I read a post about someone else's dislike for resolutions and how they choose one word to focus on. Since then, that is what I have tried to do. The last few years I have had the word "vulnerability" because that is such a big thing that I need to work on. This year I sense my word will be "Resilience".

I am still working on being vulnerable, but I am furthering it by choosing to focus on resilience as well. To keep on doing the work involved in vulnerability, to continue my post-secondary education, to keep marketing my Etsy, (Launched in the summer, 2021) and to keep doing my artwork.

I've been saying "I'm working on it" a lot lately, whether I entirely missed the mark I was shooting for or whether my mom asks if I have my homework finished. Ironically, I am writing this instead of doing an assignment due tonight.

I think I'm going to have to let my painting fall through the cracks in my schedule a little bit. I have improved so much over the past year, but now I think I need to focus on college. It really hurts to admit that I need to prioritize something besides my artwork. I keep reminding myself that writing is also a creative craft that I need to practice and that helps a little.

Let's just keep swimming and see where this year takes us, shall we?