This is a mash-up of two blogs I posted on my personal blog on December 31 and January 1....
Goodbye 2011
Goodbye gripping sadness
Goodbye anger
Goodbye fear
Goodbye bad habits
Goodbye worry
Goodbye self-doubt
Goodbye hurt
Goodbye pain
Goodbye tiredness
Goodbye nastiness
Goodbye negativity and negative people
Goodbye self-loathing
Goodbye depression
Goodbye financial stress
Goodbye guilt
Goodbye caring what others think
Goodbye uncertainty
Goodbye bad luck
Goodbye deep grief
Goodbye 2011
Hello 2012
Hello love
Hello kindness
Hello grace
Hello better health
Hello better fitness
Hello new friends
Hello feeling safe
Hello good things for the kids
Hello confidence
Hello new wealth
Hello increased strength
Hello empathy
Hello good luck
Hello stable career
Hello permanent job
Hello fun
Hello good memories
Hello positivity
Hello learning new things
Hello old love
Hello new love
Hello 2012
On a side note ... I wrote out the "goodbye 2011" list and burnt it. The whole list burned except for the word "grief". I tried 3 times, but it just would not burn.
ReplyDeleteOdd or symbolic?
WHOA. That's crazy that "grief" wouldn't burn.
ReplyDeleteMakes me think that, if it is symbolic, it would mean that the grief can't go away, but that we CAN choose to keep living even with the grief. That it doesn't have to disable us forever.
I love these lists. And I love the idea of burning the goodbye list. I might just do that myself.
Hello Amanda! *smile*
ReplyDeleteI too had a burning list for New Years Eve and felt so cathartic letting go of some old things.
Grief ~ I think it is burned away in the living out of each day, slowly and with great measure. The more intensely we live, eventually it burns.
I think maybe it didn't burn because when it comes to you again, you won't think "but I burned you! If you can come back, that means all those other things on that list can come back too!" Ah, see? Grief. Looking out for you. It knows it will still be around, but all those other things? Gone.
ReplyDeleteI like the way you think Megan...
ReplyDeleteLove it! I have been yearning to be rid of 2011, I am going to print it and tape it above my desk.
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