My Word of the Year for 2024
He is the Potter, and I am the clay
At the start of a new year, I do the same as millions of others — contemplate possible New Year’s resolutions.
This year though I’m going to do something a little different. Something I’ve heard others do but have never done myself. Instead of a resolution. I’m choosing a word that will be a sort of theme for me in 2024. The word I’ve chosen is vulnerability.
I don’t wait until a new year rolls around to examine my life and make changes. Instead, I do this often, on no particular schedule. Lately, I’ve given a lot of thought to resolving a feeling of a self-imposed mental block.
It actually goes beyond a mental block. I feel it in my writing and in my life. It’s more of a feeling of not really experiencing the world around me. An all-encompassing block — mental and spiritual — that comes from a resistance to opening up, a resistance to being vulnerable.
As we go through life, we all experience ups and downs, joys and heartbreaks, victories and tragedies. They all impact us and change who we are. Some more than others. They can cause us to put up walls and avoid emotions. It can cause us to adopt behaviors that let us “numb out” so we can avoid the emotional rollercoaster that is life. This is what I have done.
