Personally, I do not believe in making massive new year resolutions mainly because I rarely achieve the resolutions that I made. However, I still am into reflecting on all the things I went through throughout the year so that I can be a better person while making new mistakes unavoidably as a human nature. So, looking back to 2022 and forward towards 2023, here are a few things that I learnt and that I think are worth bringing into the new year.
Many goodbyes and greetings
2022 gave me a certain perspective on leaving and in contrast, welcoming. As all of us know, goodbyes are hard. For me, greetings and embracing change are hard, too. Personally in 2022, while goodbyes took time to process for letting myself move on, trying to settle down in new place and with new people felt like skywalking without safety-belts: I have to walk but I know there is a huge risk to fall down - that is the point I feel hard. Embracing change is easy to say but difficult to practise in reality because there are a lot of uncertainties: the culture, the system, and the people compounding trust is not built yet and the communication is being tested. In 2022, I was floating in that cycle: byes, trying to move on and adapting changes, meeting new people & things and learning. I am exhausted but I have come to realize that this is a cycle we have to deal with, the whole adult-life until and unless you want it. In 2022, I had many farewells: some were good-byes; some were unexpected byes and some were the necessary byes I made sadly. There were also a lot of new people and new things I got to know during this year personally and professionally.
While I am struggling with all of that, I feel that this is beautiful in having a sense that I have been able to process all of that and be conscious every step of the way only because I am a human.
