2024 A Year In Review

 Well everyone! It is getting to be that time of the year where we all turn a new page into our lives as we say goodbye to the year 2024 and prepare ourselves for the upcoming 2025. But before I do, I wanted to write this blog and discuss what the year 2024 meant to me.

2024 was shall we say a up and down year for me to say the least. A lot of unexpected highs and lows, ton of changes happening in my life. Some good, some bad, some I not even sure what it could all mean to me.

Things about myself, that I have been dealing with for so long and I am slowly starting to accept some things about me and to be perfectly honest, I would love to explore these more.

But like I mentioned earlier, there have been some positives and there have been some tough negatives for me during this past year. 

On the negative side of things, I finally managed to open up and tried dating again which would be the first time in a little over 12 years after being completely ruined by ex-girlfriend who cheated on me and left me for the guy she cheated on me with. So needless to say I was a little bit hesitate to date again, but this time I thought it be different. Well I couldn't have been more wrong, at first, things seem fine, at least I thought so, but as time went on, she started to avoid me, the next thing I know I had to find out from my best friend Stephon that she had been sleeping with another guy behind my back. In fact, she had been talking and seeing a lot of people behind my back. So yeah, slow start on the getting back to dating.

On the bright side of that, it made me more focus on myself and discover things about myself that I plan on exploring more in the future. Also I just blocked her on everything and moved on ever since.

Another big negative for me, was witnessing my friend, my mentor, Brian Carson, go through so many different health problems throughout the year. It was extremely heartbreaking for to see him go through all of this. Watching him, worrying about him and not being able to do anything about it really bothered me. Carson as well as Kenny Varner have been huge influences on me as a writer and as a human being. 

However, I recently got to talk with Carson and he was being his old self again. Making jokes, talking sports and storytelling. It was really good to hear him be in such an incredible mood. And much like myself, Carson has some big plans in 2025. Prayers to you Carson and Kenny!

On the positive side of things for me in 2024, I got to do something that I never thought was possible and that was publishing a book. My poems book Thoughts Of A Sheltered Mind hit Amazon earlier this year and I was very surprised with the response to that. I am forever grateful to God and to every single one of you and I really do hope that you all enjoyed my book.

Writing has been a major factor in my happiness and keeping me from losing whatever sanity I have left. And writing this book really like a lot of me inner thoughts out and I was hoping to show people what I got through mentally on a daily basis. All these thoughts and stories I wrote down and been dying to get out of head for a very long time was so relieving. Like I can not even describe how much my mind went calm after publishing this book.

I can't thank you all enough for your support of my book along with my other writing projects. I plan on doing more stories soon. But that is a blog for another time.

2024 was an interesting year and I pray that things in 2025 will continue to build on what I was doing this past year.

Until Next Time!

God Bless and Be Safe Everybody! 🙏🙏🙏

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