I can’t believe today is 2021. The year itself sounds so futuristic like it is out of my lifetime, but it’s only twenty-seven years after the year I was born.(-: The year I’m supposed to graduate with my fourth college degree, the one I will finally get a career with—at least for a little while. Time for me to be a real adult and get a job and support myself and continue figuring out the rest of this life. Get closer and closer to living out my dreams—marrying Aaron, having kids with him, five or six more degrees (all Master’s and a Doctorate or two), traveling, changing this world to make it a better place for ALL.
But the point of this post is to reflect on 2020 from my
point of view. I feel privileged and honestly ashamed to admit that this year
has not been very hard for me—a mix of being introverted and also probably not following
stay at home orders as much as I should have. Switching to virtual classes was
heaven-sent for me. I love driving, and I prefer living at home even with the
two-hour roundtrip commute, but two hours a day and switching back and forth from
waking up/getting ready mode to driving mode to school mode to driving mode to
errand mode to driving mode to home mode with schoolwork and housework to do
was EXHAUSTING. Not having clinicals for half a semester was also nice. Granted
it was one of the clinicals I was looking forward to the most—OB—but clinicals
make me nervous, so the break was very welcome regardless of which class it was
for. It was the first time I passed any HESIs, and I passed THREE at that. It
was the year of my absolute favorite nursing courses.
Recently, it was the year of my first holistic medical
appointment. I visited a holistic dentist enlightenDENTAL in New Orleans this
week (Not sponsored—I just loved my visit that much.), and I’m looking forward
to this new journey as a holistic medical patient.
The year where I finally admitted to myself that I’m not
living the life I want to live, but that doesn’t mean I’m not happy or don’t
enjoy the things I do have in my life because no matter how bad I’m feeling, my
answer to “How are you?” is genuinely “okay” and often better. I’m feeling that
bad moments don’t make for a bad life or even a bad day.
In 2021, I’m looking forward to creating the life I want to live and doing more to support my body in being its healthiest. I can’t wait to start budgeting my own income! Let’s hope I can afford all the things I want, which honestly isn’t really that extravagant.
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