2014

Hey! Did you know that its the year 2014? There was a big world wide celebration early morning on the first of January in case you missed it.

For those of you not present at the moment I am writing this directly after the previously posted entry. Disclaimer aside i had an idea while writing that post and it made me smile.

What if we treated 2014 like a person?

DONT type pinterest.com into the search bar just yet. Stay with me for a second. I promise my wild tangents are hysterical.

Still here?

Good. Okay. Here's the evil pink bunny that makes the trail we are about to embark on.

What if we treated 2014 like a person? A close and personal relationship that would only last a year starting from midnight Jan 1st and end on December 31st at 11:59 pm. Think about this for a second. You would never be alone at parties, concerts, or any formal social gatherings. You could be all like 'rsvp me and my plus on" and then eat both the chicken and the fish at your cousins wedding.

Okay so that tangent might not have been as awesome as i promised but its only January 5th, i'm just warming up.

Speaking of 2014 and the new year does everyone know what their resolutions or goals for this year are? I have a few.

1) obtain learners permit
2) obtain drivers licence
3) write second draft of novel
4) get a job
5) decide if i want to go to college
6) attend a comic-con type event.

That was more than a few things, agreed, but all of them are big life choices for me.

Even if i manage to achieve all of my goals for the year i know that those wont be all of the positive decisions i will make in 2014. There are little everyday hurdles that i will face along the way. Its my unofficial goal to record all of my 'yes's this year.

I dont mean "yes i want to eat an entire bag of salty potato chips by myself." I mean the yes' that will mold me into the 2014 version of myself. Although now that I think about it, eating all of those chips would still be a yes but not a positive one.

As an example I'd like to share that my yes jar already has a yes in it. I woke up in a panic that my two best friends (basically the only two human beings that aren't family that I talk to) had made the rash decision to not be friends anymore. I don't live in the same state as them so the Internet is the only way we communicate. I think that its a unspoken rule that phone calls are for emergencies only. What i'm trying to get at is that I worried about it for a few hours and would have for the entire day and not said anything to them. That's how I usually handle things. But that morning I messaged them and asked if everything was okay and blah blah blah. Turns out i'm still a worry wart and everything was perfectly fine between them.

And that's the very long winded story of how my 2014 yes jar acquired its first entry.

Like I said, I am a worry wart and I usually worry until I make myself sick. I am very proud of myself for asking. It may have taken me a few hours but I did it.

Some of my yes' from 2013 included going to the dentist's office by myself (I hate going in for any medical checkups). Another was going to Denver without my best friends unlike we had planned. There was a lot of hurt in those moments and I needed a change of scenery. Thankfully my Dad was still willing to go on the trip wit h me.

I also went and watched nearly all of the kid movies that came to our local theater with my youngest brother. My 2013 yes jar was PACKED with ticket stubs.

Its moments like these when I say 'yes' to something that I normally would say 'no' not that make me happy. Its because I am making decisions  instead of avoiding situations. Because I am choosing even though I hate change. Because I am living.

That's the importance of my yes jar, to remind me of what I am capable of.

What are your goals for 2014? Have you taken any steps towards reaching your goals?
-Awel