New Years Eve, 2018.

The normal I’m gonna do…and blah blah..” begins.  Gyms get full with the resolute.  The produce section gets a lot more traffic at the local grocery store.  The rush and wonder of the holiday season fades, and Winter sets in.

I guess I join in on some of that year after year.

I think I’ll be more healthy.  Perhaps lose a few or a lot of these extra pounds that came in.  They came invited though. I mean, I participated in the party.  Maybe I’ll do more of the things. Whatever that means or whatever those things are.

In truth, 2018 taught me some stuff.  If you are being taught, then it’s definitely up to you if you learn.

 

Losing people.  In that were lessons. In their lives were gifts.  In the memories are learned lessons I intend to carry over into tomorrow. All of us end. We end exactly the same. Our lives here, now, at this moment,  is where you actually become.  Not everyone in your life is going to understand you. Not everyone stays.

We lose people, and we gain. The key I think, in all of it, is to be intentional.

If I’m resolved to anything as day 1, of 365 is nearing, it is to be more intentional.

Cultivating and intentionally investing into the relationships around me that matter.  Sometimes you just have to be completely involved in your own life enough to desire to share it. To pause and be in it with things and people that shape who you are.

Be more intentional about listening. Making time to be in that moment,  rather than moving though it.

If you think about it there is actually time. There is time for that lunch. That call. That text, that drink, that dinner, that trip, that letter,  that new top, those new shoes, that laugh, that cry, that job change, that word,  that apology, that moment, and that smile.

There is time to intentionally Love.

With everything,  there is hurt. Pain sometimes. Part of international love is pushing through that, in the end, or even at the end of the day, it matters exactly where you put your intent.

So yes, I’m doing that ” blah blah, New Year” thing too.

Maybe I’ll see you at the gym.

Intentionally.

✌