resolution.

I know it's late but I've really been debating and thinking about this year's resolution.  I feel this year is going to be a very eventful one for me but this past year provided me with so many things that I wanted to change and fix that is was challenging to really find something that spanned such a wide array of changes that needed to be made.
This past year was one of immense challenges.  This past year was one of high highs and low lows.  I experienced personal victories and triumphs.  My family also experienced difficult times and faced new challenges.  We stuck together and grew closer through it all.  I learned more about myself and I'm not the same person I was a year ago.
I also experienced the wonderful birth of my niece.  That was such a wonderful birthday gift and a true blessing to our family.  She is a perfect angel sent from heaven to warm our hearts and make us smile and I love that baby more and more each day.  This year, I also graduated from college.  This was a huge personal triumph for me and an accomplishment of which I am very proud.
I had a wonderful experience student teaching.  I met some wonderful teachers and some wonderful students.  I learned lessons that will last a lifetime.  Sometimes I succeeded and sometimes I failed.  This was one of the most terrifying yet rewarding experiences of my life.
I suppose last year's resolution was a bit premature and far-reaching.  I have not quite accomplished those goals.  I still don't know where I'm going or what I'll be doing.  I finished college but I am hardly farther along in my post-college plans than I was one year ago.  I'm working my hardest to find jobs and to make plans.  I have no idea where I'll be in a year or what I'll be doing.  Part of it scares me but part of it excites me because of the thrill of an unknown adventure.

This year's resolution is "find your way."  I'm standing at a point in my life where I have many different directions I could go.  I have many different paths from which to choose and at some point or another I will have to choose a path or one will be chosen for me based on what opportunities present themselves.
I have many different decisions to make that I will be forced to make.  This year I have no option but to move forward- non-progress is not an option.  I have high hopes, dreams and expectations for this year.  I don't know what's out there for me but I certainly can tell that good things are coming my way.