It’s 2022, and like every other new year, there are resolutions flying around mingled with the greeting Happy New Year! For some reason, it is like we blinked from 2019, Covid happened and voila! We are in 2022. It feels so surreal because for most, life has been about redefining work, family, health, and relationships.
I came across a post that said we don’t have to justify our existence or work for it by trying to improve, make new year resolutions, or chase productivity like we are proving that we deserve to be alive. I am sure there’s more to the message than what I have abridged it to here. Sad part is, I actually can’t find the post…if not, I’d have attached it here.
When I came across that post, it resonated with me a lot because I really didn’t feel so ambitious, ready to chase the bag, I just had the overwhelming sense of gratitude to be here, alive and hopeful even with all the disappointments.
I think there is this constant battle to find peace and happiness, to live our best lives in wealth and health but most times life has other plans and it is not necessarily bad, just not what we expect. We are anxious to have everything we think we need and want as soon as possible.
I heard someone say in a clip I once watched that “life is about dualities”, I have heard another person say “life is about lessons”. Well, I had a lot of lessons to learn last year about strength, patience, value, process, forgiveness, I am still working in the forgetting part😂, risk, new beginnings, endings, God’s faithfulness, Godliness, and right believing. It can be summed up in the following statements:
- You are stronger than you think
- You cannot rush the process or fast forward it no matter how much you wish
- It is important to know your value if not, you will keep measuring it in currency
- The journey is the process
- Forgiving is easy, forgetting is the work
- You really have nothing to loose
- You can always start over
- Good things can end too and better may not be around the corner (I am still learning this, this one is hard!)
- Peace doesn’t mean the absence of chaos
- God is Faithful (ok, I am still processing this)
- Godliness is different from morality
- You have to believe right to act right
This list can keep going but I like to resonate with stuff so I have my own testimonial and make my peace with things. I wish I could narrate the stories that led to all these lessons but that’d be requiring a book.
2022 is here, fast moving already. I have my own new year goals (don’t we all?), a strong desire to build and increase capacity but the most important thing for me is to be a present participator in my life, and to rest.
Rest for me is not trying to force anything or feel too strongly about anything, to just be at peace with myself, preparing for the good things I know will come.
What’s 2022 looking like for you, wanna share?
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