now is when everyone is going about saying “new year, new me”
i think that is a load of bull..
why start afresh?
i am proud of who i am today, and yeah – the times ive been hurt have helped to shape me into who i am today…
why would i throw that away and “start again”?
the tears i cried have carved me into the person that writes this;
i wish i could say i am unafraid – but i’m not
i wish i could say ” i am happy with myself” – but i’m not going to lie to myself
i wish i could say “i am confident that in 2012 i will be a new me” – but i wont, i’m still going to make mistakes
mistakes – the word doesnt fit…
are they mistakes?
or are they paths we chose to follow…
even though we were unsure?
i dont know – but i know i have made my fair share of mistakes in 2011
and i wouldnt change a single one.
i trusted people i maybe shouldnt have…
and i know sure as hell that i am going to trust more people i shouldnt…
its life!
but i know; i have had adentures in 2011 which will stay with me forever….
becoming more then just friends with the bestest human on the planet…
travelling to Paris, and then to Sevilla with him…
being told “i love you” under the Eiffel tower…
finding out more about my Father…
playing my guitar on stage in front of my mum for the first time…
learning that it is okay to admit that you are hurting…
coming to finishing school – which is an amazing way to end the year –
i thought i would hate it here – i have – but nothing beats sitting by a log fire reading a beautiful edition of Jane Eyre…
lots of things…
i dont believe that 2012 will be a new start…
however i have a brand new leather journal, so in a sense it is a new page…
i know many people will be “welcoming the new year” by having a party,
i’m not,
book, log fire, in this stunning house…
the fact i am not surrounded be people i know?
it’s given me time to think –
in the past few days i have seen both the worst,
and the best,
in people…
and as an Irish guy once said “life is a rollercoaster, just got to ride it”
and in 2012 i’m not goign to give in completly and let life take it’s course…
but i’m going to trust more in myself…
starting with taking the lead role in a brand new musical written by a musician whose music, its beautiful –
and it is an honor to have been chosen to create the role of Guia,
it’s amazing to look at how far the cast have come, through the early stages of workshopping through to our performances in february
and my music teacher, fuck she writes a tune…
i’m going to learn that, i may not be perfect, but i have someone who loves my imperfections
and those imperfections make me –
i’m going to have the confidence to say “this is who i am”
and you can take this…
or you can leave it because i’m through accepting limits, i’m through trying to please people who dont give a damn…
and im not going to loose sleep “because not enough strangers found you suitably fuckable” (from a poem – Pretty by Katie Makkai)
no – i’m going to do 2012 my way –
with the people i want to be in my life…
and i’ll take my battle scars – and i will use them so i learn from my mistakes..
Yours,
Learning To Trust Myself
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