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is it just me, or do you kinda really miss reading blogs?

When it was peak early 2000s, and you would read blog after blog, and have those little chat boxes at the side and you would all just spam it sometimes.

I guess, I just simply miss being able to sit down and write for nobody. This is just my space and I have no pressure and write anything I want. But if you decide to read my thing, then that’s all cool with me!

And I figured I already pay for this website, so why not make use of it more, hey?

Plus it’s 2023, and a new year means trying to set more goals. And one of my goals this year is to be able to sit with myself and write more.

So hello! I’m currently sat at the dinner table at my friend’s house (where I’m currently crashing whilst in between apartments), Kings of Convenience is playing on vinyl, and the beautiful evening sunset is glowing through the window.

2022 was crazy and unexpected, and I guess it made me feel like I needed to take a lot more control of my life in 2023.

There are no regrets. I always take everything as a life lesson, and a character building situation. Yes, I made mistakes, and yes, I did not enjoy everything that went down, but overall, I think I came out of 2022 still pretty okay.

Anyhoo. This year ahead the goal ahead is to be a lot more intentional. With myself, my choices, my work, and my friendships/ relationships.

That also means that I would like to use this platform as a way to reflect on that intentionality, and the things I go through.

When I first started at my desk job (½ of my working life), I wanted to change desktop wallpapers every month so there was a calendar on there. And I stuck to it until it got to July. Because July’s wallpaper was a peaceful picture of a bricked mantelpiece with a mirror reflecting an open door, a candle, and a photo frame with a Morgan Harper Nichols quote. I LOVE Morgan Harper Nichols, and her books do genuinely are read at a time where you probably needed it the most, whether or not you know it. Anyway, the quote read: Boundless peace had found her anyway.

And I absolutely loved the conviction that came from the quote. And then I just couldn’t find another wallpaper I wanted to replace it with anymore. With 2023, I know that the boundless peace will be with me. However, I want to be able to help myself get there perhaps in a little more on my own terms. So intentionality it is.