Chapters

I, a constant bookworm looking for new material to dive into, have always been fond of chapters.  I like them in all shapes and sizes.  I also care not in what form they appear, whether they are chapters in a book or chapters in my own story of life.  There have been many pivotal moments in my life that I can clearly distinguish as an end of a chapter, or a beginning.  As I stand here, at the edge of 2009, I can feel a chapter closing, and another beginning.

Quite a few things have changed since my fifth semester at college came to a close, and I am looking at these changes just as I look at myself in a mirror, and I see a slow transformation.  Despite the saddening appearance of a couple new pocks on my face, I am finally aware that I have come into my 20th year of my life, no longer a child, and slowly, with the addition of new experiences and responsibilities, I have become an adult.  Granted, I still have my silly, side-splitting moments, but I am not one to throw everything from my past away.  I am looking to start fresh and to embrace these new parts of me (that were always there, I just simply did not realize they were) and look to grow.

If there is one thing about me that has not changed, it is that I still love lists.  With a little over 12 hours remaining until the start of 2010, I have written a list of Resolutions, just as I do every year.  Looking at the old, sun-scorched list that was on my bulletin board all of 2009, I see that I did not keep most of my Resolutions.  However, quite a few came to pass, such as being open to new things and change.  Perhaps my time was not managed as well as it could have been, but I know it was not wasted.  Thus, the list for 2010, is:

Resolutions for 2010

1. Wear jeans only twice a week and all the other days of the week,
wear skirts or dresses.

2. Learn conversational japanese and french.

3. Learn to cook 10 extravagant, difficult dishes.

4. Excersize three times every week, at least 45 minutes.
- Swim
- Ice skate
- Rollerblade
- Weights
- Treadmill
- Stretches
- Yoga

5. Learn to meditate and do it fifteen minutes a day,
slowly progressing to an hour if possible.

6. Finish one painting a month.

7. Learn to bake bread from Gosia.

With the help of my mother, I have created a list of resolutions that not only seems frighteningly attainable, but also so precise and, ah, what’s the word… specific! It is so specific that I am just bound to accomplish it all.  Of course, I am trying to be positive about it here.  But I want it done.
There are, of course, a few other non-Resolution Resolutions, which I intend to do… I would really like to embrace my artistic side, as I was given the opportunity to with the coming of Christmas.  I created a few paintings for my closest friends as gifts.  I had done this a couple years back, but I was much more proud of my new paintings.  I’d like to somehow figure out how to get these paintings and designs out to more people… because I know it can be done.

The other artistic side, of course, is my music.  My songs need to be rerecorded, and I have to do that before my sixth semester at college begins.  It’s funny how I still manage to keep myself so busy even when school is out.    So those two things are sort of my non-Resolution Resolutions, which will hopefully also come with a YouTube video or two.  I hope.

So here we are at the edge of 2009, all I can say is, 2010, here we come!  May it be a great year, and may it be the best year yet.

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