Will this be the year I stop worrying?

The beginning of January is a blank slate. A time where we feel a sense of excitement as to what the year will bring.  As each year rolls into a new one, my hopes for the future have included the usual – more exercise, more travel, more greens… Typically, I fail to keep to my promises. I asked my family and friends if they manage to stick to their resolutions. They don’t either. It doesn’t help that we live in a society obsessed with success. There’s a fine balance between dreaming big and setting oneself up for a fall.

I keep a box of my favourite poems, letters, old journals and unfinished stories. Within these stamps of the past, I can see paths not taken, disappointments, failures and mistakes. It is out of this box that my resolutions are often formed. What can I do differently that I failed to do last year? How can I be better? As I look to the year ahead, instead of trying to do more and be more, I have decided to let some things go.