As I have mentioned before, I have had a tough year. I have overloaded myself, put myself through multiple little problems, and was trying to balance the overinvolvedness that I had put myself into. Thankfully, I have pulled myself through, and sometimes you need to go through hard times to realize how much you can handle. But just because you can handle it, doesn’t mean you should do so much.
While I went through a lot, I still learned a lot, and I do appreciate it. I am excited to take a step back.
Planning next year, I will leave my Fridays open to spend them however I please. I am choosing to be bored, and if you know anything about me, I have to be doing something at all times.
But I am grateful to be bored again. I will be able to pick up old hobbies and enjoy them. I will strengthen my baking skills and start reading again. I will be able to just be and be whimsical.
I won’t miss a lot from this year, but I will miss a few, one being Big/Little Coordinator.
When I was struggling this past year, one of the things that took my mind off was the Big/ Little program. I enjoyed running the program and working on trying to grow it. While I am leaving it differently than I found it, and not the way I would choose, it taught me a lot.
I learned that not everything has to be perfect and that it will be okay. It taught me that sometimes important things are found where you don’t expect to find them, and most of all, it taught me that sometimes needing to change when something isn’t working, but in a way you wouldn’t like, isn’t a bad thing.
I have had to grow alongside this part of Her Campus, and it showed me some of my greatest strengths and my worst weaknesses.
I hope that next year, I will learn to live in the whimsy and be able to let go and live, which is a large ask if I do say so.
This year has taught me a lot about myself, the good, the bad, and the ugly. I have met great people, created great things, and I won’t miss a lot, but I will miss some.
To the program I think of as my baby, I hope you grow and become the best that you possibly can be!