Hello

Hello 2015,

I’m not sure what we are going to make of each other, but I have eagerly awaited your arrival. However, you are not the most important thing on my mind. Actually, I’ve decided that you’re rather unimportant. You are just a number assigned to a new “start”, but this isn’t the beginning. This is the continuation of an education I both crave and find I need. You are just a number, 2015. A number filled with ever more important numbers, roughly 365 of them. That big number comes down to one though, because this journey must be taken one day at a time. It isn’t five days from now, or fifty days from now that matter most. It is today that things will begin to change, that is…if you choose to do something today.

I would love to look at 2015 and magically find myself climbing the steepest, most glorious mountain of my dreams. But truthfully, I cannot see the rest of 2015 from here. I can only see what is here and now, the opportunity to make the most of every day. I am once again in the valley, already trekking up the foothills of new adventures. We shall stay humble in this new set of numbers; we shall learn we shall grow. We may stumble, we may fall, or perhaps we’ll find ourselves a beautiful new view of the world. I don’t know what awaits us at the top or if we’ll even make it. All I know is that it will be one hell of a ride with this girl by my side.

One day at a time – this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past for it is gone; and do not be trouble about the future for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful it will be worth remembering. Happiness is a journey 

So hello 2015,  

You are just a number, and I am just a girl with a dog.