Wednesday 30 December 2015

New Years Resolutions

Hey guys, my oh my, it's been a while!

It's literally been an entire month since I last posted, and I'm really sorry about that! I've just spent the last month in the UAE, a trip in which all of you will be able to read about in a couple of days. But, for today's post, I wanted to talk a little about 2015, and what I hope for in 2016.

Now, I'm not the type that will proclaim that the new year will mean a new me, because I'm pretty sure that I'm not going to change overnight. Plus, all of the years leading up to this year have made me who I am right now, so why would I put all of those previous years to waste? No. New Years to me means that I can look back at the previous year and remember all of the wonderful moments that had passed me by, and recognise that all of the negative moments were purely learning curves for me to grow. New Years means that I can take everything that happened in 2015 into 2016 with pride, and realise that whatever I didn't necessarily enjoy in the past year can be looked out for with caution in 2016.

Remarkably, this past year has been filled with phenomenal moments. This last year, I have travelled to new lands, returned to old ones, made new, fantastic, lifelong friends, pushed myself to leap outside of my comfort zone, and achieved many things that I promised myself I would back in 2014. I have learnt new things this year, grown more as an individual, said goodbye to negative, hurtful people and situations, and dropped a dress size.

I take pride in everything that I have achieved this year, but along with that pride comes a sense of underwhelming enthusiasm for the new year. There is a lot of unnecessary pressure on whatever my resolutions are to be. It sounds silly, I know. But when 2015 has been so extraodinary, 2016 has a lot to live up to.

Which is why I have only one New Years Resolution this year: to continue doing what I'm doing.

The choices I made a year ago were completely correct with how I wanted the year to pan out, and my only hope for 2016 is that it can be filled with just as much joy, laughter, silliness, testing moments, and most importantly, brand new adventures. As the sun sets on 2015, all I hope for is blue, sunny skies in the new year.

(I do need to get back to the gym though, so I'll keep that one on my list as well!)

Happy New Year my gorgeous readers, and I hope your 2016 is full of magic and laughter.

The gorgeous sunset in Bahrain from my trip in September.
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Fawce xoxo.