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So New Year is officially done and dusted, and the lingering magic that it brought I feel has almost run out. So what happens next? In this allocated time frame of 2017 I feel some goals need to be set. Shall we make a list? Let’s make a list. Gotta love a good list. My primary goals for 2017 are:

• Make it through my first year of Uni without worrying too much (hahaha we’ll see).
• Make time for friends as much as possible. Seeing everyone back at home has made me realise how much I’ve missed everyone over the past 4 months!
• Start considering post-uni life (scary stuff).
• Write on here on a relatively regular basis- and have fun with it (on my last blog I think it failed because I put pressure on myself to write to please people, I still want to do that, but this blog is also for me).
• Work on some short stories, and stop shying away from difficult to write ideas.
• Read non-course related books. Doing an English degree means I ALWAYS have set reading to do. Because of that- if I have free time, I tend to gravitate towards something that isn’t reading, which I kind of miss. This year I want to attack the mass pile of books on my wishlist- classics, greats, young adult trash, you name it- it’s probably on the list.

There’s a tonne of other stuff that links into this basics list but I think I’ll save it for another day now. Let me know what your goals for 2017 are, and why? Let’s start a good old chat in the comments.

Aimee x

New Year’s Resolutions

You know- I’ve never really understood the hype around new year. Time is constantly passing and yet we only really celebrate the last 10 seconds of the passage of one year and the beginning of another, as though those few seconds are the only few that give us the capacity to change our entire lives for the better. And inevitably, most of the time lives don’t change- people don’t change- especially not permanently.

I spent the New Year this year at a friends house for a party with around 20 friends I hadn’t seen since before starting university (around  4 months ago). It was so great to have a catch up with those I hadn’t really been in contact with, but as I’m not really big on drinking I took my two drinks for the night spread out and watched as the alcohol fuelled antics began. Aside from being thoroughly entertaining (and at times just a tad stressful) this New Year actually forced me to confront the importance of making personal goals, and although I regard the entire idea of New Year’s Resolutions as pointless (if you want to make a change, do it whenever!) I actually made myself a resolution. Not for the New Year, for the future. Last year I told myself I would worry less about other people, which I should point out has proved catastrophically unsuccessful, so this year I’m taking a new approach. My new vow is to start letting go more. Letting go of niggling little worries about what every person will think, letting go of the consequences of that one fun night out you could have, letting go of uptight Aimee when she doesn’t need to be around and letting impulsive Aimee do something perhaps just a little bit stupid, for the sake of a new memory.

We’ll see how it goes. Happy New Year.

Aimee x