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Today’s post is short and sweet. Over this break, I have been less focused on my blog due to the holidays and applying to seemingly thousands of internships, but because New Year’s is a time of reflection and resolution, I thought I would break my silence with a small post. Please enjoy.
As the day’s hours slowly tick down to the start of the new year, my mind has been reflecting on the past 12 months. It was an eventful year full of significant changes – I broke up with a partner, leaving a toxic relationship. I entered a new, loving relationship that is going strong into the new year. I got into graduate school. I graduated from college. I moved out of my college lifestyle of dorm life and cafeteria food into a new adult lifestyle, including paying rent and buying my groceries. Amazing, right? I started working at a new pharmacy and met new coworkers. I lost 35 pounds over the summer. I started my Master’s degree program. With my Master’s degree program and all the writing I was doing for my classes, I started thinking about my childhood and my mother’s condition a lot more.
All of these changes led to the creation of this blog. It’s crazy how one little decision at the start of this year culminated in me sitting here, typing on my laptop, chatting with a virtual audience of over 250 readers. I am so grateful that people are interested in my writing, participating in interviews, sending me positive messages, and engaging with my blog.
I admit the following year will be challenging. A new president who, in my opinion, is not fit to run our country will be entering office for the second time. COVID, bird-flu, and several other diseases will continue to plague the planet. I fear that the horrors happening in Palestine will, under Trump’s administration, get worse. Jobs will be hard to get; money will be tight. Billionaires will get richer while the rest of us tighten our budgets and battle inflating taxes. But there’s a lot to look forward to, and I urge all of my readers to think of the positives as they enter the new year.
I am looking forward to taking the next steps of my adulthood. I hope to save money, lose more weight, focus on my health, and get my own apartment by the summer. I hope my relationship with my mom will stay steady despite her rocky patterns of accumulation, which have recently increased amidst the holiday season. I look forward to my relationship with my lovely partner getting stronger and healthier. I aim to finish my Master’s degree by the end of 2025.
For all my family-of-hoarders readers, here is my advice for 2025: Set boundaries. Know your limits. Prioritize yourself. I promise it’s not being selfish. Care for your mental health, and don’t let the circumstances of your surroundings bring you down.
We got this.
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