This holiday season has not been the best for me and I have fully realised that a little bit of tinsel and Christmas songs doesn’t take away what is going in life and although the year on the calendar has changed again, it hasn’t helped me forget what happened the year before. Despite that, in this coming year, I plan to continue the journey that I am on to work out what I want to do with my life and doing my best to live a physically and mentally healthy life.

I don’t believe in this ‘New Year, New You’ stuff. As I have referred to in a few instalments now, I haven’t always felt comfortable being the ‘quiet one’ and following the events of last summer, I haven’t been made to feel confident about my abilities. Therefore, there have been many times that I wish things were different and that I was different. I personally think (those you know me may disagree) that I haven’t really changed over the years in terms of personality (but also physically if you look at my school photos!) On reflection though, when I started on my ‘confidence journey’ if you will which I talked about in My Journey As a Giraffe, I didn’t think I would be able to change. Since then, I would say that I have done fairly well in what I set out to do, having more confidence and courage to do what makes me happy and although I haven’t fully achieved this yet, living with less fear of the future.  

In general though, in this coming year, I am looking forward to a job interview for a disabilities support worker job this month, working more on how to practically progress my blog, exciting family trips as well as deciding by June what I want to do about uni and will wait and see what else comes my way.

Thank you for taking the time to read this and I hope you find it helpful. As always, feel free to get in touch with any questions/feedback/comments, I always love to hear it. Stay tuned for the next instalment.

Until next time

Kathryn