Oh 2021, what a year you were!
I am so excited to welcome in a new year and while I’m pretty sure we all say that every year, I really mean it.
I’ve been documenting my life now for a few years and at the end of each one, I write a reflection post sharing what I’ve learned. I wanted to do that here but tbh it would be so melancholy and negative that I instead share my intentions for 2022 on the podcast so stay tuned for that episode next week!
Here I want just say thank you to 2021. The last few years have truly been a reckoning for me, a period of intense self reflection, personal growth and transformation. If you look back at the last few years of these posts & especially my birthday posts this year you’ll see what I mean and since I did those honest intense reflections there I wanted to make this post a little different.
2022 is going to the year where I truly get to see the fruits of all that work.
This year is going to be intense and it’s going to challenge me in new ways, but this year I hope all the ground work I’ve been doing the previous years has given me a good foundation to be able to handle it all.
Law school graduation and the bar exam await me and I’ll be sure to document those experiences in full detail as we go, but so does the beginning of my life.
For the last 22 years I have been a student and for the first time ever, come May I will no longer be a student. Come September, I’ll be a lawyer and I’ll be a full blown adult.
I haven’t been able to reconcile that in my head yet. I’m freaking scared. There’s so many decisions and challenges that I have yet to make that will shape the life I choose to live and while I am really excited for 2022 I couldn’t just do a mindless here’s what I’m looking forward to post without sharing that.
I am really excited for 2022, though! It’s the year I get to start living my life on my own terms!
There’s just a lot that has to happen before that day comes.
So while we live in continued times of uncertainty in the world, I am hopeful that 2022 will be a good year for us all and that the lessons we’ve collectively learned throughout the past few years has prepared us for what’s to come.
Thank you 2021 for a wild ride, all the struggles and bad days and moments of despair that have led me to here. I know that everything happens for a reason and that I am a better version of myself today for all that I have gone through in the past and I look forward to seeing the fruits of all that labor in the years to come.
See you never friend, I can’t wait to be able to laugh about you in like 10 years!
2022, with all the cautious optimism in the world, I say, I am ready to see what you have in store for me. Just please take it easy on me🤍 idk how many years of monthly mental breakdowns & big realizations a girl can take anymore.
Here’s to a new year full of new opportunities, memories and adventures, stay tuned, you know you’ll be along for the ride!
xo Kayla