this years love

this is a year for rebuilding old friendships
and starting new ones
and letting go of lost ones
and salvaging almost lost ones
and nurturing current ones
this is a year for letting go
of feelings
of grudges
of people
of baggage
this is a year for new life
and new like
and new love
and new skills
this is a year for enjoying myself
enjoying my youth
enjoying my town
enjoying the people in my life
this is a year for family
for remembering each other in the good times too
for getting each other through the bad times
for being friends by choice, not just obligation
this is a year for moving forward
for not looking back
for starting with a fresh outlook
for finishing what i started
for reaching a goal
for overcoming a hurdle
for taking control of my feelings
and most importantly, for remembering all this, and not letting it just be another empty list of good ideas of who i could have been, and for becoming who i want to be
this years love had better last
and i think it's all going to be okay

no, i think it's going to be good.

for the new year, for the old year, for every time we need it [and we inevitably will]

"You mustn't be frightened if a sadness rises in front of you larger than any you have ever seen; if an anxiety, like light and cloud-shadows, moves over your hands and over everything you do.
You must realise that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hands and will not let you fall."

-Rainer Maria Rilke