What I learned in 2022
I’ve taken to skipping resolutions for the new year. I choose to look back at my year and think about all that happened and all that I learned. I also take a look at what I want to move forward with and release from my habits in the year ahead, and build new habits that become regular occurrence. Here are a few things that I learned in 2023 about myself.
30 things I accomplished, learned and started before 30
I think a lot of us can say that by the time we are 30, we have these goals set out that we hope to accomplish. They are not even goals, more like life milestones. I think we’ve created this belief system that we’ve failed if we aren’t in the right space before 30, but I think dismantling this belief, accepting wherever you are, you are at the right spot is the key to happiness at this age. 30 is a scary year, but I’m looking back on 30 things I’ve accomplished, started and done by the age of 30.
What they don’t tell you when you get back from long-term travel.
I wrote a post before I went on my long 6 month trip to Asia on what I had learned about traveling up until then. What I had learned about how people treat you and how you start to feel when you get started on one of these long-term trips. Its like a form of detachment from your home and opening yourself up to the world and all its possibilities. Its rather freeing, and it also can be a bit startling when you return home after selling all your possessions, saying a final goodbye to people (that you never had an intention of seeing again), and hoping you’d end up somewhere else.
Loss of a Friend
As I write this, I have just found out a close friend of mine had passes away suddenly. I’ve been told “you’ll get used to it”, “things will get better as you get older”, “you’ll eventually get used to it when people you know start to pass”. This isn’t my first friend to pass away suddenly at a young age, and it hasn’t seemed that it hurts any less. Here is a personal post with just a few thoughts on young loss.
