2025 and More of MiEon

Happy 2025! If you are still with me, reading my blogs every week or so, THANK YOU!  The past few weeks have been such a struggle to find topics. I feel like my growth is stagnant. I have lost my focus and direction. It’s never too late to start again.

Every year, I set New Year's resolutions. They usually focus on some aspect of myself that needs to change to fit in someplace that I most likely don’t need to be. The end of 2024 was no different. I began to think, what can I fix about myself this year? Is this the year that I take my health seriously? Absolutely not; I will not lie to myself again about working out five days a week. I chase a one-year-old around. That’s cardio. How about I promise to be a better listener? In 2024 I listened to people, I heard so many things that I could have lived without knowing. Listening is a no this year. I can list a billion things that might be improvements if I were willing to invest in them. I am not willing to change myself to be accepted.

This conversation with myself helped me decide not to make any New Year resolutions. I am not perfect by any measure. I am, however, perfect by every measure. If I resolve to involve myself with what involves me, I don’t have to change a thing. You see, I am perfect for what is for me. My imperfection fits perfectly well in the spaces that it is wanted.

By this exact logic, I invite only those who accept my imperfection into my world. I don’t have to look a certain way, behave in a particular manner, or believe in things I disagree with. Neither do the people around me. Everyone in my life is there because they want to be. And I didn’t have to be fake. It feels good to be me and accepted.

That doesn’t mean that I will not focus on health. Of course, my health is a priority in 2025. The difference is I want to be healthy for me, so it means more. I want to be a better wife for me. I want to be a better me and make my life better. So we start 2025 with me being better for me, not you.