Journey

So as the year rolls around to a close, I thought it fitting to end the year with a reflective blog on my life and year in general.

I've made plenty of new friends, lost a couple too, had lots of firsts, and hopefully a few lasts, kissed too many boys, drank too much alcohol, had dozens of other amazing experiences and still managed to hold onto a high credit average.

My initial idea for this post was that it would be about the 'end': the end of a year, the end of a saga, the end of a journey.

But then when I think about it, this is so far from the end.

If this year has taught me anything, it's that things never stay the same, never stay how you expect them to, for very long at all.

And while midnight tonight might strike the end of the year, it's merely the close of a chapter, in a book that is simply a volume in a massive series depicting this crazy, beautiful life.

In the wise words of Flavia: "There are no endings, only new beginnings."

In a way, I don't feel as sentimental about New Year's Eve this year.

This year has showed me to don't need a countdown or a dropping ball to make a change or keep a resolution.

If you want to make a change, then do it.

In a sense every day is like New Year's Eve with that kind of philosophy (and hey, I'm drinking enough of the time to make that even more plausible).

And everyday is a new journey.

This will be my last post in over a month.

In a few days I will be setting out on a journey, and not the metaphorical sense.

5 weeks in the Costa Rican jungle is sure to be a grounding experience in reality, it will probably have it's own book in the saga.

So happy New Year Sydney, and don't change too much while I'm gone; I don't want to miss out on the excitement.

"if you can wait 'til I get home, then I swear to you that we can make this last" - A Day To Remember

Happiness

Some times, things just make you happy.

You can't explain it, it doesn't always make sense, and sometimes you might even feel like you really shouldn't be feeling the way you're feeling at such a moment.

It might be something as powerful as love, and twisted as a fetish, or as innocent as a favourite track of music.

Yet I think the most important thing we have to learn is that different things make different people happy.

You might think that something seems incredibly wrong, that it shouldn't be happening, that no good would come out of it.

However, I believe this reasoning comes from a lack of empathy or understanding.

There really isn't any foolproof way of putting yourself in someone else's shoes and experiencing exactly how a given circumstance makes them feel.

Most of the time, your third party judgement is clouded, based on some ulterior motive or pre-conceived belief on what you think you know.

I think there would be a lot less drama in the world if everybody learnt how to accept and care a great deal less about things that didn't directly impact them, or to have much less of a say in things that are just none of their business.

At the end of the day, you can judge and you can complain and you can pass all kinds of comments, but you're never going to change the way people feel.

Most of the time, it only takes a simple something, or someone, to make someone happy.

You can kick and scream and disapprove as much as you want, and maybe it might make a difference.

But you're just changing the way anyone feels.

You're just becoming a barricade, a bar in the road, putting a halt to something that one would expect, and hope, to come to naturally.

I don't know about you, but the last thing I want to do is stand in the way of someone else's happiness.

"I'll spend forever wondering if you knew I was enchanted to meet you" - Taylor Swift