If there’s something to know about me, it’s that I don’t like to follow rules. That doesn’t mean I am out in the street, outlawing my way—it just means that whenever something doesn’t suit me, I change it. I don’t care if it makes me a rebel, someone on the fringe of the “socially acceptable”.
Even more when it’s something as harmless as choosing multiple words for the year instead of just one. Are you kidding me?!
So, here are my words of the year. They’re mine, weirdness and all, and susceptible to change at any point as I follow my whims.
꩜ — Carefree gluttony
I want to lose myself in my passions. I want to feel free to experiment. I want to create with no end in mind. Create for my pleasure first, and it’s always time to see later if it is something I can transform into something marketable. This “need” to sell everything is what has stopped me in the past and ruined my creative impulses.
This year, I will create for the sake of creativity, and nothing else. I will gorge myself with my hobbies, let my creations find their own meaning. I will be letting this project go wherever it wants to go, and I won’t stop its flow with my nonsense.
﹩— Wise and cozy
Money-wise, I want to keep things smart and go toward a more financially secure life, but I also want to keep living a cozy life. That means I want to pay off our car, stash money away for the kids’ future, while still putting some aside to get our house even nicer than it is right now.
I want to finish the inside of the house—mostly custom furniture that will fit perfectly with the bones of our home. I also want our gardens to be nice and our outside walls repainted. Then, my big project is having a sort of greenhouse extension in our backyard, where we’ll be able to entertain in the summer. This will take money to achieve, and I’m keeping it in mind.
⌂ — Happy lair
More cozy vibes. I want to feel happy, stress-free and worry-free in my home. I want everything I look at to bring me joy. I also want to make the life of my loved ones easier. I’m not someone who likes admin tasks nor domestic ones, but the incentive of making everyone’s lives better might be enough to make it happen. We will see!
⏀ — Longevity
At 48, I feel old. My health is not what it used to be, and even more since Covid. Anxiety has stopped me from doing anything about it for years, and I’m hoping to take my power back this year. I want to add more movement in my days. I want to see all the doctors I need to see to be as healthy as possible.
I also have the hope of travelling again before I die. I would love to see Italy again. Japan. The United States. I want to go visit the people I love, who live so far from me but are near my heart every day thanks to the Internet Gods. I want to go back to Disney. I want to go to the beach. I need to be healthier for that.
⚭ — Spreading love
I’ve spend quite a few years in a state of anger. Injustice, prejudice—all that would send me into fits of rage, and made me lose all patience. I’ve been slowly inching toward more patience, more love. I want to be loving to my family. I want to be loving to my friends. I want to be loving to people I don’t know. Oh, I’ll keep myself safe, because tons still hurt me deeply… but I will try to move into this word with a positive attitude.
✦ — Hoarder of knowledge
Don’t compare me to a dragon—I hate them with the power of a thousand suns. But I have the same hoarding tendencies when it comes to learning. I love to learn new things, try new hobbies, and accumulate knowledge and trivia. In 2024, I want to do it again.
After an awful 2023, where I put my body and my mind on pause to focus on getting my mental health to acceptable levels, it’s time to get back into nourishing my brain. As a multipotentialite, this is what makes me happy, and I know it. I’m looking forward to zooming between hobbies and add to my fount every chance I get.
Tell me… what are your words of the year? Do you stick to one? Do you use multiple, like I do? What is important for you right now?