New Year's Eve for me has always been the most perfect time to reflect. A year has passed and a fresh, blank canvas is about to begin. What I paint on that canvas will mostly be up to me but I sincerely hope that it will become a smorgasbord of people and experiences.
2011 has been a busy year, not only for experiences but for stretched time. The majority has been filled with highs, with my wedding to the Photographer at its pinnacle. Unsurprisingly, April 21st to me, was everything I wanted from 2011 and more, in the space of just one day. If nothing else had happened this past year I would be joyously content in the knowledge that my husband is at my side.
I am so grateful that 2011 has been a year defined by friendships. New friendships, deepened friendships and most poignantly, restored friendships. They have all taught me so much and I am genuinely thankful that each individual chose to share some of their time with me.
This year has been one of travel, with the Photographer and I visiting Barbados, Iceland, Prague, Munich, Marseille and Cologne. Needless to say this has been a source of great happiness to me - I love to explore and see the world and it has been so lovely that we've been able to do it as a pair, on honeymoon, visiting friends, holidaying with friends, attending weddings abroad, and visiting family.
I was expecting the extension of this busy-ness in the lead up to Christmas to be overwhelming and yet, it wasn't. The Beautiful Blonde stayed with us for 10 days at the beginning of the month and she was a very welcome addition to our home. She was such a blessing during this busy season, with the busy-ness becoming even more fun because we could share it with her.
Christmas this year gave me time to think, time to look around and appreciate my family, and time to understand a few things that will be changing next year. It also offered me a little time to re-evaluate perfection.
Perfection often depends on expectation. It can only be attained by removing the blinkers from your vision and accepting that life cannot always be organised (which is certainly saying something for me!). Its current is too strong to avoid should the tide take you, and allowing flexibility opens up space that has more of a potential to be, for its purpose, perfect. So for the coming year I'm hoping to allow room for maneouvre in the hopes that the year might surprise me in both what I hope for and what I do not expect.
For the country, 2012 will signal the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Year and it will also bring the Olympics to the UK - a test of the country's infrastructure I'm still hesitant it will prove able to carry!
Personally, 2012 brings a challenge to manage time so that it doesn't feel stretched, to equate perfection with contentedness and to share as many experiences as I can with those around me.
Happy New Year and a very blessed 2012.
Much love,
xx
Saturday, 31 December 2011
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I spent this evening reflecting too. Happy new year! Not equating perfection with contentedness is something I can work on too :)
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year to you, too, LCC. May you reach your 2012 goals. Having lived more than six decades, my motto has become "good enough" rather than perfection, and that serves me well in the area of contentment.
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