Going out with a Bang...

There’s only an hour and forty minutes before the great year of 2010 is over and 2011 comes rolling in, and I found myself sitting on my bedside, thinking of all the good and bad this year has had. I have definitely had one hell of a year and I can confidently say that I am excited to end this year and begin a new adventure. I have everything I could ever ask for right now and there is nothing more I want than to “start over” and have a clean slate under my feet. I have a few extremely close friends who I couldn’t live without and I have that someone in my life that keeps me going and is always there for me to lean on. I am doing my best to rebuild relationships with my family and mend all the broken pasts in order to start over, and what a better way to start than the new year… I have grown tremendously this year in learning who I am and what I stand for. I have gained the strength to let go instead of always fighting to hold on and that is the biggest accomplishment I feel that I have achieved. I thank all my friends and family for sitting by my side through all the thick and thin and helping me get through everything that has happened in the past few weeks and into the past few months; I am truly blessed with every life I have encountered. I realized that everything happens for a reason, and that I cannot change the course that my life has been set to sail. I learned a new word… a word that I now hold close to my heart: serendipity. Serendipity is the accidental discovery of something pleasant; it’s like fate, fortune, luck and one’s destiny. When I had doubts in my mind and started to walk away from what the world told me I couldn’t be because of a book, something came up out of nowhere and fell right into place…serendipity. When I least expected it to happen, it did. So this year didn’t turn out quite the way I thought it would. It ended in a way I never imagined and I am hoping that this upcoming year brings even more joys and unexpected pleasures. All I can really say is…Expect that unexpected. Happy New Year and bring it on 2011!