What do you want?

Around this time last year I wrote about not making any New Year’s resolutions. How it was, in fact, crazy that we became conditioned to make them at the gloomiest part of the year (I took the paywall off that post - you’re welcome to read it and share your own thoughts).

I still don’t make New Year’s resolutions - not in a traditional sense anyway. But what I usually end up doing is taking this time of the year to slow down (way, way down) and reflect.

It usually starts as not doing much of anything. Staying in, reading books, binging on a favourite show (again), eating comfort foods, letting my mind go blank.

Inevitably, given enough rest and blank space, the mind starts churning out thoughts and ideas and visions for the future that I want to have, and that’s when I start paying attention, maybe scribbling things down and making some pretty loose plans (they usually are along the lines of “more of this and less of that”).

(I must admit: It’s been hard to do it this year, what with wa…