Before the year ends and we welcome 2024, I’m writing a quick short blog to wrap up the year — like a cherry on top.
As we draw close to the end of the year, I realise that there are many things that I didn’t complete this year, things that I didn’t know I was even going to get myself into, and things that turned my whole life around.
And all these — thoughts, completions, achievements — are all because I measure things with time. “Oh, I didn’t complete writing 10 blogs this year. I didn’t earn $10k this year. I didn’t get to travel this year.”
The concept of time has got a choke hold on me — it makes me think about what I’ve done, what I haven’t done, what I missed out on, or what I could be doing now, tomorrow, next week, or next year.
This is when I start to realise — time is nothing but an endless loop. Well, it will be “an endless loop” if I make it to be. If I don’t change the things I do, if I don’t start working on the things I always talked about, if I don’t take action — then it will be an endless loop of failure, and wasting my life meaninglessly. And soon enough, before I know it, another year passes by, and I would say the same things again.
It’s so funny to me that, in my head — every new day, week, or month, doesn’t really matter to me because they are short time frames that can just be used as small milestones throughout the year. But when I think about a year, it feels like I’m about to go into a different dimension. Because a year feels very long. It’s a very big time frame.
When a year resets, we go back to the first month again — just like an endless loop. Every 12 months that passes, time resets. So what exactly is time really?
On another note, time is both a friend and foe to me. It not only gives me the opportunity to work on myself and my life, but also a bunch of problems that only time itself could provide solutions to. This is one of the reasons why I hate time, because I can’t control it. I can’t make it any faster or any slower. But I embrace it, because it is what we all have and we can choose how we want to spend it.
Time is immeasurable. And until then, it will be an endless loop.
Anyhoo, 2023 was fun for me, but 2024 will be even better.
Thanks for reading!!