New year, same me.

Two thousand and twelve has been a whirlwind, but I know that it has been the best year of my life to date and I would not change a thing about it. As you know I have made mistakes, but they’re the lessons that I have learnt from. I have grown so much as a person, I’ve conquered things I thought were not possible – my confidence has soared, my emotions are much more stable, and ultimately I’ve learnt to love who I’ve become. With that in mind I have decided to make only three new years resolutions;

1) To not change who I am – I don’t mind change anymore, so what I mean is to not alter what I stand for, the way that I think and the beliefs that I hold. I don’t want to follow the “new year, new me” trend because lets not sugar coat it here – it is bullshit and I’m fed up of thinking like that. So I just want to be who I want to be and to believe that I am perfectly fine exactly the way I am.

2) Have a healthier outlook on life – I need to start taking better care of my body, and that’s not entirely based on aesthetics it’s just setting myself up so that I can make the most of life and you cannot argue with the whole “healthy body, healthy mind” thing that gets said to death. So I don’t want to stop eating reeses peanut butter cups, or not have a home made roast dinner, instead I just want to do everything in moderation and be lead a more active lifestyle – there’s no harm in that!

3) Document my 19^th year of life – I have a feeling that this next year is going to be the most eventful yet, it’s the time where I think I’m going to become ‘Jemma, the successful and independent girl’. And ultimately I don’t want to forget this next year – whether it goes as planned or not I just know that it’ll be good.

So, without further ado I’d like to introduce my new project “365 days of Jemma” – pretty self explanatory, this is my online diary that I will be writing in every day. It is empty at the moment, but the year has not started yet so it will start tomorrow – as will the rest of my life (tad too cliché perhaps, but hey here goes another one…).

Happy New Year, and que sera sera – whatever will be, will be (…yep, I went there).