Welcoming a New Year

Everyone likes to start out a new year with some kind of resolution we all know never really works out. Go on a diet, avoid eating certain foods, find true love... all of these things are good thoughts but kind of impossible to obtain or keep up for a whole year, though it can be possible if you are truly determined. Year after year I have tried to find something to do or make a promise to myself because I was told its what everyone does, so instinctively I should to. And as much fun as it can be, each time I fail because I aim high so this year I am trying something new, and here is my goal:

Be adventurous and have fun. Live life to the fullest.

I have always thought of my life as full of adventures and being slim on dull moments, but there is still a part of me that wants more. Over the past two years I have grown so much, due in part of moving around so much and trying to find out where I fit in in life and what makes me happiest and makes me who I am. Finally finding myself back at home but in a new location I can rid myself of the feeling of really being lost and worrying about where I am going to be next. I believe that before I was afraid of connecting with people on an emotional level because I knew it was only temporary. Now I don't have to be afraid. I am home, happy, healthy and stable. I have found God again after wandering away and my roots are set :)

So I have been inspired. I have a few good friends and a wonderful boyfriend now after opening up and growing this past year, but I want to open myself up more. One nice thing about being in a relationship is having a sense of love and stability and just spending so much time together, but it is good to break from that and still have your own life and friends. Not that I don't enjoy the friends I have now, but I want to form more friendships and relationships. One thing I really like is how David is always calling different friends and seeing if they want to hangout, grab lunch or something. He is always meeting new people and everyone loves him. He has inspired me to challenge myself this next semester to make friends in each of my classes and meet up, get together for coffee and just talk about life. Some say that friends you make in elementary school will be friends for life but I believe that it is now. The friends we make in college are the ones who meet you when you have found yourself, like you for who you are and don't have to worry about you changing like you would do in grade school, were I have typically lost friendships.

One of my other passions is traveling and camping and I hope for this next year to do a lot of that. It doesn't have to be far but just getting out and discovering the world and all the wonderful things that God has created. I want to go backpacking in the Trinity Alps again this summer, go camping in Yosemite and some of the beaches along the cost of California. Not sure what else right now, but there will be more to add to my list of things I want to do and places to go this year :) and I can only hope that my best friend and lover could go with me, but only God knows!

I don't know how or why, but this year is going to be a good year :)