Happy New Year folks! I hope you've all had an amazing and safe holiday period with your family and friends!
2014 has been a strange year for me. I've been seeing a lot of posts recently on Instagram/Facebook about how grateful people have been for the last year and how it was 'the biggest/most exciting year of their lives' etc. I don't know about you, but I've been experiencing major FOMO whilst scrolling past these kinds of posts. You see, I don't feel that way about 2014 at all. In fact, I haven't felt that way about life probably since about 2009/2010. All I keep thinking about is, am I doing something wrong? Why am I not feeling this content with the past year?
It's not the fact that I don't allow myself to be content or happy, it's just that this past year has been so...mediocre for me. Sure, I've had my fair share of milestones this year, like moving out of home and starting university (again), but those milestones are clouded by the negative experiences that lead to their happening. I kind of feel like I've been living under a grey cloud for the past three years despite the supposedly gleeful moments of graduating high school, starting university etc.
It's not the fact that I don't allow myself to be content or happy, it's just that this past year has been so...mediocre for me. Sure, I've had my fair share of milestones this year, like moving out of home and starting university (again), but those milestones are clouded by the negative experiences that lead to their happening. I kind of feel like I've been living under a grey cloud for the past three years despite the supposedly gleeful moments of graduating high school, starting university etc.
For my birthday, I got a gorgeous leather planner from Paul's parents. I also got some stickers which are love heart shaped and say 'live bright' in gold writing. I stuck one of the stickers on today's date about a week ago and I guess it's kind of a new year's resolution for me. Live bright, as in living to the most of your ability (whatever you ability may be that particular day), enjoying the things that are good, striving higher, achieving more, dreaming more and thinking negatively less.
In truth, I'm rather excited for 2015. I'm travelling back to Perth with Paul at the end of February for a close friend's 21st, I've already been booked for a couple of weddings and I'm participating in a few exhibitions. There is possible travel to Queensland and New South Wales on the cards and there are a few bigger things, which aren't photography related, that I can't mention just yet and they're probably the most exciting of all! :)
Stay tuned, hopefully this year will be something I can feel content and proud about.
(On an unrelated note, here are some photographs I took in Perth during September with the gorgeous Elise!)
Let me know how you spent your new years/what your resolutions are for 2015!
Currently: Geelong, Australia
