January 1, 2024 – “Life twists your dreams, but in subtle and painless ways, until one morning you wake up and you’re out of time”. A quote from “Our Last Night” by Taylor Adams (P 163). Dan’s fiance/girlfriend has died, tragically. He grieves for his loss. During his journey he revisits key moments in their life together…..
So here we are. It’s 2024. The dawn of a new year. Happy New Year everybody!
I’ve spent a lot of time doing things that are necessary (ie: working) and also unnecessary (ie: worrying about the future). Don’t get me wrong, we have to think about the future. But over the last month or so, I realized that I haven’t been doing things that I want to do. I’ve only been focusing on what I have to do. I don’t want to have regrets. I don’t want to wake up one morning and realize that I had squandered the precious commodity of time. So the 2024 vision board was completed and is now hanging by my desk. The things that I want to achieve (small and big) are on there.
I haven’t been writing at all (work emails don’t count). One of my commitments for 2024 (I won’t call it a resolution) is to write. I’ve collected the odd saying over the last while – quotes from famous people or even snippets of song lyrics – launching pads to get me going. When I decided to embark on my writing commitment today, I logged in and paragraph 1 was sitting in draft. I don’t remember when I read the book but clearly that line resonated with me at the time and, oddly enough, a year later, it still does.
So with 2023 behind me and a shift in focus for 2024, all I can say is that the best is yet to come.
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