I like to sum up every year in a post but I promise you that this one will not be about who walked in or out, because I love to live with an open heart letting people in and out without holding anything against anyone. It is not about if I fell in love or not because I’m always in love with this life and everything it offered me. This post is going to be about the last and most important lesson I learned in 2015.
On the 19th of December I chose to wear one of my brother’s hoodies and go to my aunt’s house. We sat and talked till one of my cousins came and I heard him telling mom, “Maitha is lost in this hoodie.” I turned to him and I said that it’s not mine, he laughed and said, “I know, cause it’s mine.”
I didn’t get it at first until he said, “It looked familiar, your brother borrowed it from me but he never gave it back and I borrowed it from your another brother who originally got it from your dad.” Everyone started laughing because this hoodie was going around in a circle. Then I came home with this thought in my head and I related it to everything that is happening in my life.
If you looked closer, you’ll see that life is a chain of actions. Every event is followed by another event and it never stops, it keeps moving on and every time it will settle in a different position. My part within those actions is to go with it and try to make the best out of it even if it means staying up all night thinking about what tomorrow morning is holding for me.
So yes, life is like a machine that never shuts off because it is fueled by grief, misfortunes, hope, love and you. So just learn to go with it and I’m sure that sometimes these actions will lead you to nice stations that are crowded by lovely memories and good people.
Remember, a year is just defined by a number like age and time, so don’t go with the ideology of “new year, new me” hoping that this idea will help you adjust with your life. Learn to accept yourself as you are and if you wanted to change the way you look at life then wake up everyday reminding yourself, “new day, new me”
Finally, if I sum up 2015 in 4 words,
I can say: Get along with life.
