We made it to the end of another year.
I’m sorry I haven’t been as consistent as I’ve wanted to be. I’ve had ideas and started some posts but haven’t finished because well…Life be Life’in.
2025 has been a rough year for me, and a lot of folks I know. It’s been varying degrees of sickness, loss, death, grief, relationship issues, disconnections, dealing with wars, corrupt politicians, lack of community, so much. And I try to be there for the folks I know as best as I can, but I also have to balance my personal needs, and end up feeling guilty. But I don’t want to dwell on the worst parts, I want to also shine a light on a few good things and just catch up with you.
First and foremost, I am still here, sometimes surviving, sometimes thriving. It’s a one day at a time thing, and that is okay. I hope you are still doing the same! Just one more day, if you can do just one more day you give space in your life for things to get better, or make a connection, or to just be. I know we are trained to prepare for the oncoming future, but that isn’t realistic for everyone, so let’s do this. I know mostly what my plans are for today, so today is ready. My plan for tomorrow will be to wake up and greet 2026 with gratitude and love. No “New Year, new me!” That’s dumb, because everyday you are a new version of yourself. Physically you and I aren’t the same people we were yesterday. For example I trimmed my face today, so how I look is different and on a microscale our cells grow and die all the time, so while we are still us, we are a different version.
Another highlight of the year, I became a Twitch affiliate, which if you’d like to follow me on Twitch my user name is SeekerOwl and I appreciate any additional follows as I grow my platform.
I also made more time for myself, which has really helped me heal from past issues tied to other people. Never underestimate the power self care has on your mind, body and spirit. For years I put others before me, to the point of neglecting my own wants and needs sometimes, and I became very unhappy because it wasn’t reciprocated. As a working adult I have to, or at least try to, maintain a fair neutral presence at work, but people know they can vent to me or confide in me the same with the folks in my personal life. But constant pouring into others cups with few people pouring back into mine left me feeling drained, taken for granted, and easily disposable. Now part of that is because I allowed it to happen and because I really don’t like to complain I just dealt with those feelings. But therapy helped me find that voice under all the dumping of others and protect it. It’s okay to be there for friends and family or whoever, but you can’t be there for anyone effectively if you are constantly neglecting yourself. So I had to indulge myself a bit more, pamper myself, take myself out for walks, visit with people that I felt genuinely cared about my overall well being and because most of my friends are usually busy, that meant “going home” spending time with my mom, aunt, and stepdad.
Spending time with them also made me realize or at least put into words another thing I was missing: Community. But that will be a blog for another time and if I remember, when I get that blog out I’ll link this one to that, because it’s a bit more complicated than I can do here and I don’t want this to be a tome.
So 2025 hasn’t been the worst, but it hasn’t been great. I read or saw in a few different places that 2025 was a “Snake year” which is tied to the Chinese zodiac. But basically this year was for shedding the old to make way for the new, transformation, rebirth/renewal and all that jazz. 2026 will be the year of the Horse and is supposed to represent moving forward, ambition, and the pursuit of success. Additionally, 2026 is the year of the fire horse which happens once every 60 years, so that’s cool. Take all that with a grain of salt if you want or make it your whole personality, you do you in the best ways that benefit you.
Since we brought up 2026 what are some things we can plan, as tomorrow marks the new year. Well tomorrow I plan on doing a working for myself and the new year. If you know kinda what that means, good but I won’t go into much detail about that now, but with that there are some things within my U.P.G. I will be practicing. So 8 is an important number for me so within the first 8 days of the new year I want to do things to draw success to them, like visit family, stream, do art, write, etc. Of course I still have work obligations as well, but I will probably make a list of things I want to do within those first 8 days to make it easier to track.
Time is weird. Some say it’s not real or a social construct and part of me agrees in some areas. Like daylight savings time, people agreed that this thing will happen around this time, but honestly it isn’t really needed, and sometimes adds to the weariness we feel. When I leave for work after we “fall back” it’s dark and when I leave work it’s getting dark whereas in the Spring and Summer it’s brighter coming and going and I feel in much better spirits. I say all that to reiterate, time is weird, but you can use that weirdness to benefit you. There’s nothing that says you can’t restart your life at 25, 37, 42, 54 or whatever so make your time count! Do things that spread joy or bring joy into your life, laugh more when you can, spread kindness, teach skills to those that could benefit from you. We have so much power to affect others and we should use that power to make the world a happier, healthier place.
I hope 2025 didn’t totally incapacitate you and that you make it to 2026. I hope that 2026 is kind to you and you are able to make the most out of life. I hope whoever is reading this is able to smile at something silly, dance off some of your stress, and celebrate the ending of one cycle and the beginning of another.
Before you go, some links and people to keep in mind, These are artist and small creators like myself and in the new year I hope they also see success:
My Twitch – My Youtube – Kofi
Thanks for the support over the years and please know that I appreciate you. Have a good 2026!
Later Days
~Owl
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