As January closes, I have been reflecting on the past year of my life. Hello all, for those of you who don’t know me, I am Gage, son of the family. I set up the website and run our social media. My face is plastered somewhere on here if I set it up right. This post will be less about the vineyard and more about what I’ve gone through. 2023 was a hard year. I know many people hoped it would herald the end of COVID-19 and the return to normality, but here we are, almost at the end of 2024, and a new variant is going around again. The world also seems to have new surprises every week, most of which are dour at best. However, despite all of this, I am doing my best to look back positively, and I encourage you to do the same. While there have been so many ups and downs, I’m sure everyone reading this can think of at least one great thing that has happened to them this past year. For me, it was graduating college.
My journey has not been smooth. When I was in high school, I always had this idea of the prescribed path I would take. I was going to graduate, then go through college, and boom, I would be an adult in the real world doing real work. Life turned out to be much more complex than that. After ending up in my first school and changing my major twice, I flunked out. Even though, looking back on it, I wasn’t ready to be a college student and had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, at that moment, I was lost. My entire life plan that I thought I would leave exploded. I was left spiraling. I really struggled for a while, and then, just to put the nail in the coffin, COVID hit. However, in a way, that time I forcibly had to take while I was quarantined worked out. Stuck inside my parents’ house, I had nothing better to do than get introspective. I finally broke out of my spiral and, with much help from family and friends, managed to get up and running again. After all of that, the spiral, and the fighting. I made it. This year, I graduated college, and I found a new passion, writing. I know this is my reflection, but if you are reading this, I challenge you as well to reflect on your last year. 2023 was hard, there’s no denying that, but what was amazing for you? It doesn’t have to be as big as mine, or it could be bigger. There is so much negativity surrounding us on all sides; find the positivity in your own life and let it in for just a little bit! Until next time!
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Lisa
1/27/2024 01:26:05 pm
Thanks for sharing your reflections. Your thoughtfulness and insights are inspiring.
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