I believe it is best to look over ones year to see how much they have grown or fallen. To see what lessons they have learned or have been taught or lessons they have taught to others. A year is a lot to think about. A year is 52 weeks, 365 days, 8,760 hours, 525,600 minutes, and 31,536,000 seconds. A year may seem to go by in a blink of an eye or it may troll along slowly. Growing older with age it seems that all this time has been going by way more quickly than it use to and its like as if time was sand thats just slipping through my fingers. It is best to try and think and ponder what you spent that time on over the year and figure out what it was used for and how could you better enjoy your life or better your life to harvest the crops of your time well spent. To prepare to go into the next year it would be best for you to look over this past year and see what you should try and change in your life and then the good things that you did and how you could better build yourself from those small successes.
2022, a year it has been. Finished up my junior year and started my senior year at Appalachian state, as well as left a job and started a new job in the middle of the year. Traveled with my family on our annual summer vacation trip and celebrated 21 years of life over the summer as well. Left old and made new friends as well as finding someone I would consider to be a possibility of my best friend but only time will tell with her. I had gone through a new truck engine as mine was all dried up of oil and it started knocking which is something you do not want to hear about regarding your car. The year was filled with many happy and sad memories spent with family and friends. It was a year of growth and falling back into old habits and trying to work on getting out of them. I had learned and I am still learning on how to live the adult life which isn’t as glamorous as I thought to be at one point in my life. Theres lots of hours of work one must put in to make money just to live the day to day. It was something that helped me realize its not the life I wanted for myself or my future family when that day comes.
There were many times of regret or kicking myself in the butt and asking myself why did I think this was a smart and wise idea at the time to then just have to work extra hard to just get out of the situation I had put myself in thinking I had known better. As well as times where I was happy and grateful for doing what I had done not knowing what the future may have held for me and it ended up working out for the best. Now coming to the end of the year I had decided to make a decision forced or well guided by my family that I may enjoy and I may dislike which would be applying for the Disney college program to help better my life. As I have gotten lazy in my routine of my day to day life. Where I tend to fall by being the best I can be and finding myself at the top and finding no more room to grow. I have hit my ceiling in growth in the area of my life currently and its time for a change. So possibly and hopefully me moving down to Florida to work for the big mouse will give me that room to grow and excel and find my new level of success as well as other to help me grow even more as well. Perhaps this new season of my life will help me become a better man for my family and future family, It’ll sharpen my skills of discernment and understanding when it comes to dealing with coworkers which will me prepare myself when I have to deal with my own workers at my future restaurant I hope to open one day and continue growing my life.
- What were three of your favorite memories from 2022?
Being able to enjoy a Journey concert with my mother and brothers as I have fell in love with 80’s rock and got to enjoy and share that love of music with my brothers
Doing a whiskey tour after just turning 21 with my mother and father.
Going on a hike with brook for one of her assignments and it ended up turning into a day of great conversation and laughter with each other.
- What were three of your favorite destinations in 2022? Why?
Being In vero beach, where we began the year, ended the year and will be beginning a new year all over again. Its a new tradition our family had started and we always have the best of times together when we are down here together
Our summer vacation in Michigan, It is where we got to travel for our big trip and just being able to take in the beautiful lakes of the U.S.
Boone, a place I had spent most of the year with family and friends. A place I had learned many lessons and a place where many memories have been created.
- What were three of your favorite meals in 2022? Why?
The tomahawk steak at stone wall, a place we go to every-year for valentines day with my family and I have gotten to share with my friends as a place for good food.
A bison short-rib I had when taking Alec out for his 21st at the game keeper, a restaurant we had been talking about going to for a year or two and finally decided to go for his birthday as a special treat.
Christmas eve dinner, where every part of my family had chipped in, in some way or form to help bring a table full of food together.
- What is one thing that you’re very proud of from 2022?
That I was able to provide for myself mostly with help from my family but still be able to rise to the top at my job and be able to live my day to day life with some ease.
- What is one thing that you wish you HAD done in 2022?
Being more aware of things like school and smaller things in life like my truck and its oil level. If i had been more aware and kept an eye on certain things I would’ve been able to avoid a lot of situations I would not have wanted to be in.
- What is one thing that you wish you had NOT done in 2022?
Allow others to affect my thought processes as well as decisions to better my life or day.
- What have you learned about yourself based upon the last 365 days of your life this year?
I have learned to live my life as much as I can and enjoy it as well as I can. To not allow people and circumstance affect what I choose to do. To enjoy the time I have but to also make wise decisions at the same time. That I am always able to rise above and be at the top but then to not realize thats where I am at and not knowing how to get out of that habit and rhythm to then put myself in a new place to continue growing.
Living and Dishing 