Another year older, another year wiser, or so they’d like to think. I think birthdays are a great time (as ever), to reflect on your year, and be proud of the things you’d accomplished and the obstacles you’d had to overome in such an ever-challenging game as life. I feel like a lot of times people always look towards the future – what goals they want to achieve, where they see themselves, yet we never really reminisce on the past, and the things that we did overcome, maybe unless on “bad things” in the past or fond memories that aren’t possible anymore.
I sincerly believe that you cannot have the brighest days without the darkest nights—meaning everything is in relation to something else and never stands alone. If we have nothing to compare it to, how can we treasure our lives today?
So I’d like to challenge you, the reader, as well, to think about how much you DID grow over the past year. Maybe things aren’t as bad as we think, we just need to take a look at them 🙂