Dear 2023 Me,

You packed your bags and moved to a new city, feeling nervous and excited all at once. You couldn’t believe that you were doing this, and oh what an adventure it turned out to be. Those first few weeks in January passed quickly, filled with one intense moment to the other, emotions running high and every experience new. At the end you had so much questions, responsibilities and hope. Life was looking more different than you had ever imagined.

February came, more questions, hope, expectations, new beginnings and relationships. Working in the presidential election was so stressful and yet you knew your experience was lighter than what others had experienced.

March arrived with so much to do, so much laughter, so much joy, so much fulfilment and pride with where you were and with what you were doing, so much awareness of what felt like a sudden end to a new beginning and yet contentment, hope, readiness of what was to come and yet so much ignorance of how it would be. Old and new relationships deepened, you continued to approach God with all your questions.

In April, you danced wildly to keep the anxiousness and fears at bay, so much worry with a bit of sadness and yet with total surrender to the will of the One who is sovereign. Hope was present again in April, with joy and peace even in chaos. People who had been strangers, now siblings and together another chapter began.

May, June and July brought the summer months as well as new beginnings. Resketching of dreams, re-finding of self and redefining of purpose. You laughed a ton and also shed a few tears. You dug deep and found a resilience you didn’t know you had, you also discovered a lot about yourself, things you were not so proud of but thankful all the same to work on all your flaws. You leaned on God; you cried some more and you felt definite hope.

August was here and that meant the end of service year was near, you thought to yourself, “what could be next?” You had thought you would have it all figured out by now but it turned out that it was not to be. But all this just showed you how life was just this ever revolving door of figuring out things every day. You had your friends, family, dreams and of course hope.

September arrived and moved too quickly, you made so much cherished memories and tried your very best to be intentional especially knowing you may never see some of their faces physically again. The knowledge that another chapter was ending didn’t scare you like you thought it would, instead you walked in the knowledge that everything would always work out for your good because you have God.

In October you said your final goodbyes, what seemed to have begun yesterday and yet seemed to last eons had finally come to an end, it was time to go home.

November and December rolled into one another, more questions, more figuring out to do, giving up and getting back up, hope and despair, dreams and disappointments, starts and ends, faith and gratitude.

2023 by all standards was an awesome year. I always say every year should be better than the last and truly, 2023 was epic. I always find this end of year recap difficult because how can you truly summarise over 300 days in just a few words? The truth is, you can’t. The best that can be done is highlight the parts you can, cherish the moments you have and hold on for the next wild ride.

I cannot thank you enough for sticking with me throughout 2023, I really had so much fun writing here and receiving all your lovely feedback. I’m eager to do better and create better and relevant content for next year so do let me know the kind of things you would love to read about in the new year and I’ll do my very best to make it happen.

It’s been a fun ride, until next year.

Yours in love and light,

– Fay🌻

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