Goodbye 2012

I'm tired and have to wake up in 4 hours to get to the bus station and sit on a bus for a little less than 5 hours. I'll be ringing in 2013 in Seoul with some ETAs and two friends from college who are visiting relatives on their break (Andrew Lee and Ben Park). Yet, I figured I should have one last post before the new year.

There's a lot to say and I don't have the energy to say all of it but it's been a heck of a year. From graduating college to coming to Korea, it's easy to say that time flies by when only a few months ago only seemed like yesterday. It's hard to capture that fleeting memory though, hard to place it in its correct time and place.

2012 will be a year I will always remember. It was a year of milestones for me. A year of new chapters, which require ending of previous chapters. I became newly single at the beginning of this year, after being in a relationship for a little less than 4 years. I graduated from the great University of Michigan. I went to Kenya and got a taste of entrepreneurship work. I decided to pack up my life for a year and move to South Korea to teach English. I lost two grandparents in a span of two weeks. It's been quite the year.

Now, I don't want to be cliche and make absolutely enormous new year resolutions that I won't keep. I'll try to keep it simple. Every year, I never make any resolutions or pacts to myself. I figure I should try this year.

My 2013 New Year Resolutions:
1. Pray more often.
2. Read the Bible at least for 5 minutes a day. Baby steps.
3. Write down at least 3 things I am thankful for pe r day. (I already bought a small notebook that I will carry around in my bag for this!)
4. Smile and laugh more (I know this is vague but this is the best I've got).
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I'm ready for 2013. Let's hope it's also a year of many milestones. Cheers.