Meredith Rounsley

Of New Years…

Well, well, well. Another year has come and gone. It was swift and full of a lot of things: good and bad, expected an unexpected. 2011 is now a couple hundred pages of my journal and a vast landscape of memories that are tucked into my mind.

A lot of people in the blog world like to do a New Years post. They make declarations of what they are going to accomplish in the year to come and offer a way to bring others along for the ride. Perhaps they will become a runner this year, write a novel, cook their way through a Julia Child book, or embark on their first year as a parent. There is something so interesting about being able to dive into the world of someone else – if only for a moment – and see a world that is completely different from our own. This age of technology has allowed us to do so easily. Seamlessly. I know things like facebook and twitter allow me to be in the worlds of so many of my friends without navigating from so much as a web page. It’s pretty awesome.

I thought about whether or not I should do a post like one of so many. Should I lay out my goals and allow a sea of people to keep me accountable? Honestly, that doesn’t really seem to be too appealing to me.

But something else really does.

I’m gonna be really honest with you and say that 2011 stole my thunder. I’ve said that to a few people, but I mean it with a lighthearted sincerity.

I spent most of the year sick, unable to use my voice, and scraping by in the ways of a student working minimum wage in too many places and overextending myself in too many directions. Writing music was sacrificed for writing up spreadsheets and I rarely picked up an instrument. Almost everything that I did became a chore. Seeing myself get stuck in this pattern was pretty disheartening. So, when I boarded the plane to come home for Christmas I told myself one thing and one thing only.

This year I am going to remember who I am again.

That’s it. No fancy promises or complications. I am going to love people with all that I have, give my life generously to those who need it, and give of myself honestly and passionately to the things I was created to do.

I realize that this could be vague, so I set some of my own personal goals that are going to unfold during the year. But I want to make 2012 a year where I finish the things I start and start the things that I love.

There is this quiet understanding in my very soul that when I begin to really do what I was made for…then I will remember who I am again.

Excitement is bubbling up in me as I think of all of the things that are going to come from this year. Fresh promise, opportunity, and life are welling up from the top of my head to the tips of my toes!

What about you? What are some things that you want to accomplish this year?

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