Happy New Year!!!

Hello,

Maybe it’s a little late for this but I don’t care: HAPPY NEW YEAR all you lovely people!!!! I hope you had a great night and lots of fun whilst the new year started. If not the universe saved that fun up for you only to give it back later this year. Trust me.

We’re a little over a week in the new year now and slowly but surely real life has started again. Since Monday most people went back to school or work or whatever they do. The Christmas tree has been put away. The presents might have lost some of their magic already and the Christmas dinners have left your body (hopefully, if not you might want to get it checked out). All memories of Christmas have started to fade and even new years eve is slowly blurring out to a faint memory (the same goes for most new years resolutions). Goodbye holiday! I had a great time with you and I miss you already. Can’t wait to see you again next year.

Despite the sad fact the holiday really is over now is also the time the new year has really begun. It's all fun you know holidays and celebrating the new year although you can't actually start changing yourself whilst not participating in the society. You know what I mean? Maybe you will be able to change yourself during the holidays yet there won't be anyone to notice the change. I know, I know, you don't change yourself for other people you want to change for yourself but it is always nice to get compliments or have other people tell you that you have changed. Just as a confirmation of some kind.

Maybe it's just me who prefers that I don't really know....

So one of the big "one week into the new year's" questions, how are your new years resolutions coming along. Have you given up on them already? Are you procrastinating (again)? Or is it actually working for you this year? Maybe you're one of those very few people that for some reason actually succeed with their new year's resolutions.

I myself don't do new years resolutions I rather set some goals for the whole year and maybe add some throughout the year. Not because I don't like new years resolutions or due to me being so pessimistic about them never working anyway. No! Not at all. They're wonderful, especially if they work or if people really try it just doesn't work out. For me they just don't work. I like to set goals whenever I want not just because it's the 1st of January and the whole "new year new me" thing.

So if you'd like. Please tell me about your new years resolution and whether it's going to work out or why it won't work out.

I hope you all have had a wonderful first week!

ThatDutchGirl96 

My 2014.

Hello,

The end of the year is nearing and that can only mean one thing. So grab your mirror, look into it, stare yourself in the eye and reflect on all the amazing and less amazing memories you have made this year. 365 days, spent differently by everyone. Endings, new beginnings, losses, gains, death, birth and so on, 2014 has had it all.

Reflection, for me an important part of the last days of the year. Throughout the year I try to keep a diary, take lots of pictures and for two years now I have a memory jar. It's this simple glass jar, nothing special about it really, that I decorated. Whenever I do something fun or I am just having a decent/ great day I write that on a piece of paper which then get's folded and put in the jar. Over the year the jar fills up and on the 31st of December I open it and go through all the notes that are in it, reliving the year and looking back on all the amazing memories I've created. After reading all the notes in the jar I burn them. The reason behind that burning ritual is quite simple. The notes contain certain memories, moments that have special meaning to me personally and by simply burning them they will stay that way. Special memories of mine, forever.

2014 has been an amazing year for me. I have learned a lot about myself, the world, the universe and life itself. That sounds pretty deep but not without reason. You could say that I have found myself in 2014. This year I have set goals, things I really want to accomplish and everyday I think about those goals and the long way that stills lies ahead of me. The fact that I now know what I want in life gives me hope and gives me the energy to wake and get up every day to get a little closer to achieving those goals. 

On December 31st of last year I set a short list of goals that I wanted to achieve in 2014 and I can happily say I achieved. The goals were:
- Do more of what makes YOU happy.
- Start college again.
- Get my drivers license.
- Travel to different places.
- Make that trip to Brasil happen.
- Start that damn blog!
And last but not least one of the most cliché goals ever:
- Stay active.

Even though it "were just seven goals" I am super proud of myself for achieving all of them. Besides these goals there is much more I have achieved today. I don't feel like talking about all those things yet so sorry about that. 

2014 has been one of my best years so far and I am more then ready for everything 2015 will bring. I have set some goals already but the list isn't finished yet.

These are my 2015 goals so far:
- Continue uploading a blog (weekly).
- Successfully finish my first year of college.
- Finish the 25 km walk on the 21st of march.
- Do more of what makes YOU happy.

That's all I have for now.

I hope you all have had a wonderful year and may next year be even more wonderful for every single one of you!! Happy new year!

Love you lots!
ThatDutchGirl96