As another year approaches its end and a new one is just around the corner, I have looked back and realized one thing: this has not been a very good year for blogging.
Literally, looking back at the entries I wrote this year, entries I sometimes scrambled to compose before the month was over just to complete a scheduled goal, most of them (especially those of the latter half of the year) are chock full of spontaneous drivel and false promises of more elaborate posting ahead which more often than not fails to deliver. I don't know if it was just a busy schedule or a blank slate of a mind or apathy, but I have a list of thoughts brainstormed which has increased in size as the months rolled by, and for one reason or another, these thoughts were put on the backburner or discarded completely.
I can truly say though that although the blogging may have not been very good, this year has ended very well. A lot of bad things have happened this year, but it truly could have been a million times worse when compared to years of the past. I have been able to make more friends, catch up with old friends, spend more quality time with family, work and work and work to points where I may have exhausted myself while still maintaining a love and enjoyment for my job, travel back to my hometown, take plenty of trips to Disneyland, and actually be happy again with where I am at. It's been a while since I have looked at my life without thinking I wish there could be something more, but I don't need more. I'm happy, and that feels good to write.
I know that 2012 will bring lots of ups and some downs, but I'm looking forward to them all. (But mostly the ups.)
If there is one thing I can put on my new 101 list, perhaps it would be to write more and write better. And so I just might do that. Or maybe I won't. But I'll still try my best. Thank you, 2011, here's to 2012!!
Literally, looking back at the entries I wrote this year, entries I sometimes scrambled to compose before the month was over just to complete a scheduled goal, most of them (especially those of the latter half of the year) are chock full of spontaneous drivel and false promises of more elaborate posting ahead which more often than not fails to deliver. I don't know if it was just a busy schedule or a blank slate of a mind or apathy, but I have a list of thoughts brainstormed which has increased in size as the months rolled by, and for one reason or another, these thoughts were put on the backburner or discarded completely.
I can truly say though that although the blogging may have not been very good, this year has ended very well. A lot of bad things have happened this year, but it truly could have been a million times worse when compared to years of the past. I have been able to make more friends, catch up with old friends, spend more quality time with family, work and work and work to points where I may have exhausted myself while still maintaining a love and enjoyment for my job, travel back to my hometown, take plenty of trips to Disneyland, and actually be happy again with where I am at. It's been a while since I have looked at my life without thinking I wish there could be something more, but I don't need more. I'm happy, and that feels good to write.
I know that 2012 will bring lots of ups and some downs, but I'm looking forward to them all. (But mostly the ups.)
If there is one thing I can put on my new 101 list, perhaps it would be to write more and write better. And so I just might do that. Or maybe I won't. But I'll still try my best. Thank you, 2011, here's to 2012!!
