Mini Blog: The End-of-the-Year Breath of Fresh Air
* Update: I felt pretty happy with my last blog post, I was surprised at the length it ended up being and I’m realizing how long my blogs will probably continue to be. I’m thinking maybe roughly once a month would be a good schedule to maintain for topics I really want to dive into. However, it’s my blog and why not have some special occasion mini blogs that aren’t as long, just small thoughts that I think may be fun to share too. So, I’m introducing mini blogs already for the occasional lol, I’ll try to find a better way to denote them <3
The period between Christmas and New Year’s can be considered a limbo-like time and it’s because of this that it’s one of my favorite parts of the year. It’s a unique atmosphere that’s manifested by everything from the year wrapping itself up and meeting the potential energy of an incoming chapter. It’s a much needed pause, where life doesn’t feel so bound by time yet. For a moment, things feel weightless and there comes a sense of calm where dreams can begin to roam freely. This is probably a sense that I developed when I was still stuck to a school schedule. Even though work schedules don’t function the same way, I still find myself attracted to this feeling at this time of year.
Once I’ve officially come down from the high of Christmas festivities; as visiting family returns home, I’ve put all of my new toys away, and the warmth of Christmas cooking has faded— I’m left with a comparatively stark silence. I tend to thrive in these more in-between states where it feels like things have settled and there’s a clarity that emerges. It’s like a cold breeze that shocks my brain, but in a good and refreshing way. There aren’t many expectations, it’s a free-play type of mode where I can just do whatever without too much contemplation.
No matter if I met every expectation for the year or not, I still completed the whole thing, and there’s so much to enjoy just from that. Surely, there’s also things I should start considering and worrying about for the New Year; resolutions, new directions, goals, etc. However, those things don’t have the gravity of time and reality on them yet. For a few days, they exist as dreams to me. The silence exists as a blank canvas where my imagination can take a victory lap for the year. This is also a reason why I feel like it’s a good time to start a new project, small or big, just for fun. When I’m not so concerned with a schedule, it seems the paint glides so smoothly, which makes a nice way to start to the New Year.
My current end of the year project !
