Plans for 2024.

Do you have anything planned for the 2024??? If so, whether it's big or small, please feel free to share your plans here. It might inspire me to do something cool next year rather than just sit here in my anxieties.

My mind is usually racing with so much it's hard to sit down and plan certain things to do. I usually go with the flow, let my mind just take me to A-B, and take the rough with the smooth as it happens. One thing I definitely intend to do is get back to my volunteering, hopefully mid January if possible, but only time will tell if that's actually going to happen. I don't want to let this opportunity escape me so I need to be strong, if possible.
As for the rest of the year I really don't know what I'm going to be doing. Normally I enter the new year thinking oh god here we go again but this time I'm hoping I'll start the new year with a more positive mindset - positive thinking leads to good things, I'm told, so here's hoping this will be the case for me.
Another thing I wouldn't mind improving next year is my anxiety as it will normally be affecting me on a daily basis and that's unpleasant at the best of times. A little less anxiety would be nice...
But that's a tall order, so I won't get my hopes up. I want to try some new meditation, though I'm doing this before the new year. 
First, I need to try and get through Xmas. Tomorrow I've got all the immediate and extended family coming over, yikes it's going to be a long couple of days. Uncle Gene will get drunk as usual, my little cousins will be running around crazily - and loudly! - and the music will be louder than normal.
*sobs*
My parents are so good though, they tell people to be mindful of my autism and not to trigger me which I appreciate on so many levels but most people don't really listen.
Roll on the new year please....
Whoops, oh dear that turned in to another ramble. Sorry!! 
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  • I feel like I don't know what 2024 will bring. Last year was change. I finished a book, I returned to work, I found myself, and this place. 

    Maybe that's enough excitement for now! 

    Avenues appear - 

    My friend from school who brought me a Christmas tree would like to know me better, but, I'm not sure I want people in my life! 

    The dog's parents are having new puppies soon, do I want one, ask the owners? Do I? Thinking

    Am I interested in being involved with an upcoming project? 

    My mind races off down these paths, exploring complex narratives, the purpose of which seems to be to find the worst possible outcomes and fixate on them! 

    Yeah... maybe I'll do nothing! Joy

  • but, I'm not sure I want people in my life! 

    I guess, if you can narrow down the reasons for this doubt, then you may be able to resolve a conclusion.

    I went through the same thing......for what its worth, I concluded - SOME IN, SOME OUT.....but it took a while.

  • Hmm, sometimes I think about friends and companionship. Even though I am solitary, I am occasionally lonely.

    But, with notable exceptions, I feel compelled to keep my life clear, empty almost, of people. I have often wondered why this is, but there's no denying it. 

    I don't know, still much of a mystery to myself!

  • Yea - I hear you.  I came to the conclusion a while back that I love to have "good" people around, but cannot abide the "bad" people.  The problem always seems to be that the "good" are often "bad" - discernment can be tricky for me.  Trusting.

    For what its worth, I would still encourage you to continue your "wondering WHY it is" that you feel compelled to keep an "empty" life.  When you have cracked that bit, more things will fall into place, and you can then tackle the inevitable follow-up considerations.

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  • Yea - I hear you.  I came to the conclusion a while back that I love to have "good" people around, but cannot abide the "bad" people.  The problem always seems to be that the "good" are often "bad" - discernment can be tricky for me.  Trusting.

    For what its worth, I would still encourage you to continue your "wondering WHY it is" that you feel compelled to keep an "empty" life.  When you have cracked that bit, more things will fall into place, and you can then tackle the inevitable follow-up considerations.

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