Before the leap year

A fresh set of days and a list of ambitious resolutions to achieve.

Right?

Well, I'm not carrying that with me.

I'd rather take a leap of faith and build on the foundation.

2023 gave me so much and slowly I realized, so did the previous years.

I hope I'm not alone on this; I believed resolutions are aimed at making major changes and not incremental ones. Oh, how I kept making the mistake of rewriting the script every year.

I learned about the importance of incremental changes rather than swiping the whole hard drive clean— It's something interesting I keep learning about progress.

In one of my 2 AM genius moments, I had spurts of energy to declutter my room.

I kept journals when I was younger and I was quite interested in reliving some moments.

My challenges and frustrations may have seemed comical but I saw a pattern in my journal entries of then and now.

I wanted to know who I am.

At the moment, it's refined towards seeking who God has called me to be.

There's that similar struggle of wanting to separate myself from what the world wants me to be and who I am. ~I pat my younger self on the back.~

I struggled with friendships, with fitting into the narrative and expectations of the world.

One day, I stopped trying so hard and focused all my energy on discovering who Samita is away from noise and expectations.

Coincidentally, my resolutions for the past 3-5 years have not changed much.

This revealed my character has not changed much meaning I still want the same thing.

2024 will be a year without a new set of resolutions.

I would rather resolve to build on the foundation.

I equally want to escape from the narrative of each year being a fresh script to write on.

My life is like a book with different chapters and seasons.

2024 is just a number that marks the beginning of the calendar and tallies till the twelfth month. Twelve months to keep track of progress. Twelve months to try again.

I am quite excited to build and rebuild until this season transitions to another.

The last six months of 2023 have been about patience and prioritizing myself.

These have been recurring themes in my previous resolutions which may have manifested differently.

It has been a journey before I got to decrypt what I fondly yearned for.

My season of 2023 still spills over to the leap year.

As I said at the beginning of this post, I'd rather take a leap of faith.

(I hope you get the pun by now 😂)

It happens every four years...

What was your biggest lesson of 2023 and how do you hope to usher in 2024?

Aside from messing up with the year every time you write the date? 😂

Nothing but cocoa love,

SM 🌼

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Etymology of resolution; "frame of mind," "steadfastness of purpose"

I found some leap year jokes I HAD to share

1. I've only met a few people with birthdays on leap year day. They were all mature for their age.

2. With next year having a leap day... which day will my Office 365 not work?

3. If a leap year has 366 days, what do you call a year with 365 days? A light year