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Coming to the End of the Year
Nov. 20th, 2022 07:39 pmYup. That time of year again where it's time for me to start thinking about what I'll be doing in the next one.
A lot of changes this past year. Finally re-employed, this time back in the retail field for the first time in over two decades. Two novel projects that kept me busy during the pandemic put on hiatus and a new project on the horizon. Catching up on my reading. Feeling and looking healthier. Not bad, considering.
I'm thinking I'm going to take it easy in December and just think about what I'm going to do in 2023 instead of trying to do everything I'd put off until the last minute. I'll do the usual, making future plans and thinking about how I can make them happen. What plans do I have, you ask? Well, you'll know soon enough when I've given them much more thinking and working out. I know I want to get at least one novel out in the next year, for starters. There are still a lot of personal changes I want to make as well. A change of thought process, I suppose. Interesting things to come.
In a way 2022 has been kind of a year of making peace with a lot of things. Closing some connections and creating new ones, allowing myself to follow through with plans and desires. That sort of thing. I think part of it is being back in the retail world, which has effectively forced me to reconnect with the outside world again. I hadn't realized how insulated I'd become during the Former Day Job. I truly do enjoy those connections I'm making again. But more to the point, I think I'm realizing why I enjoy them...I used to (somewhat self-deprecatingly) say that I just liked making other people happy, but that was never the real truth, only an excuse for putting others before my own self. It's that I like that connection, being a part of a community. I also think that disconnecting from nearly everything toxic or worn out or no longer needed over those two years helped as well. I know who I am and who I need to be, and I certainly don't need to be that for anyone else's benefit.
Anyway...I'm glad of where I am now, and I'm really looking forward to the journey ahead.
A lot of changes this past year. Finally re-employed, this time back in the retail field for the first time in over two decades. Two novel projects that kept me busy during the pandemic put on hiatus and a new project on the horizon. Catching up on my reading. Feeling and looking healthier. Not bad, considering.
I'm thinking I'm going to take it easy in December and just think about what I'm going to do in 2023 instead of trying to do everything I'd put off until the last minute. I'll do the usual, making future plans and thinking about how I can make them happen. What plans do I have, you ask? Well, you'll know soon enough when I've given them much more thinking and working out. I know I want to get at least one novel out in the next year, for starters. There are still a lot of personal changes I want to make as well. A change of thought process, I suppose. Interesting things to come.
In a way 2022 has been kind of a year of making peace with a lot of things. Closing some connections and creating new ones, allowing myself to follow through with plans and desires. That sort of thing. I think part of it is being back in the retail world, which has effectively forced me to reconnect with the outside world again. I hadn't realized how insulated I'd become during the Former Day Job. I truly do enjoy those connections I'm making again. But more to the point, I think I'm realizing why I enjoy them...I used to (somewhat self-deprecatingly) say that I just liked making other people happy, but that was never the real truth, only an excuse for putting others before my own self. It's that I like that connection, being a part of a community. I also think that disconnecting from nearly everything toxic or worn out or no longer needed over those two years helped as well. I know who I am and who I need to be, and I certainly don't need to be that for anyone else's benefit.
Anyway...I'm glad of where I am now, and I'm really looking forward to the journey ahead.
