It wasn't a bad year for me (that was 2015) but it was for a lot of other people. For me, it was a year of preparing and planning. I did a lot of things in my personal projects folder and a few things in my actual paid work folder and I feel like it was okay.
Technically, being human, nothing is good enough so I think a set baseline of 'Just Okay' is... well... Just okay-ish.
"Forget about good. Good is a known quantity.
Good is what we all agree on.
Growth is not necessarily good.
Growth is an exploration of unlit recesses that may or may not yield to our research. As long as you stick to good you’ll never have real growth."
- Bruce Mau, An Incomplete Manifesto For Growth
Life isn't just about just-okays though. It's a continued exercise in self betterment.
I also realised I'm a
It's been a long time since I had stayed in for New Year's Eve so this time it'll be an exercise in making a big, yearly to-do list.
The year ended with Brunch with a group of intellectuals. We ate, we drank, we laughed, we spoke, we swore.
The year ended with Thoughts as I read through articles that resonated with what was spoken with the intellectuals.
The year ended with Plans as I siphoned through my ideas and musings, as I remember how much I have missed cranial activity.
This year ended with realising that 2016 was a year of the body, the search for numbness..
This year is salvaged by me recognising the needs of my intellect first, my needs as a human being second, and the needs of humanity being third.
Next year will start as years start
Unabashedly, with wide eyes and bushy tails.
Next year will start.
In closing, the woman I want to be like is my grand aunt. She's Bawse.
You can read about her HERE
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