Annyeong 2017

2017. Another year of love, happiness, frustrations, success and everything in between.

I’m not gonna waste my life chasing someone in circles instead, I’ll  bear in mind how much sunshine and genius and expansive outrageous possibility I can  carry around with me everywhere I  go. I’m not gonna ignore my value and worth and potential.

I know that we are all so totally poleaxed by our own yearning, by our own magical and thrilling thinking, by our own physical struggle to hard work. We put our faith in pre-fabricated fantasies rather than reality; we believe in quick fixes and shortcuts rather than craft; we admire celebrity and popularity rather than originality; and we find ourselves reaching for sparkly fantasy worlds while ignoring human beings. The world tells us that we should be disappointed in ourselves every day. Our flaws should not prevent us from growing. So, in 2017, I promised myself that I would bloom like that gorgeous wild flower. I will show the world the beauty and worth. I will not allow anyone to hurt me, and while there are things we cannot completely control, I will do my best to practice grace while dealing with them.

Let’s just be ourselves instead, broken but confident and hopeful. Let’s leaf through and see the patchy, mediocre, mundane details of our lives and declare them exalted, splendid, magnificent and glorious!

Believe and feel it, embrace the changes.

Here’s to my hopeless romantic self this 2017! ☺☺☺☺

Ash