January 1st, 2025
It’ll b a few days before this post goes live. This morning I woke up off the coast of Ensenada, Mexico. It’s been awhile since I’ve blogged or really wanted to. People always ask (during job interviews, anyway) where do you see yourself in five years?
I’m constantly fascinated to remember that five years ago seems like lifetimes ago and yet also like yesterday. This morning, five years ago was 1/1/20. I can’t be alone in feeling like I’ve lived lifetimes in these last five years. There are things that have most likely effected us all, like the COVID-19 Pandemic and increasingly divisive politics, but these last five years have also seen major personal changes and growth for me as well.
In the past five years, I’ve left a job I love to take a job that almost broke me, and then found a job I really enjoy, challenges me, and I can grow in. I worked my way through both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s and am debating sitting the CPA exams.
In my personal life, I’ve lost some pretty important people. I watched two of them pass from this life to the next. I also have started breaking from the people pleasing I’ve spent most of my life striving for. I’ve learned to start doing the things that are best for me and that it isn’t selfish to do so. I’ve distanced myself from relationships that made me feel less than, that I felt I had to act in, or where I was the only one present, desperately trying to make it work. There is no way that January 1st, 2020 Stephanie would believe where we ended up!
What does all that mean for reading and Once Upon a Chapter? I’ve missed blogging and in 2025 I’d like to pick it up again. Having liberated myself from strict ideas of what that looks like, it means that I’ll be popping in sporadically, when the mood strikes. Reviews most likely aren’t going to be an exact format every time. I have no interest in forcing myself to write lengthy reviews when sometimes I just don’t have all that much to say.
I’d rather be here in unorganized chaos than not at all!
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