Well, it’s the end, folks.
No, not the end of BFD, but the end of the year. I’m taking an extended holiday from BFD and will back with new posts in January. Before I go, I’d like to take a moment to thank each of you for reading my little blog.
Thank you for your support, your encouragement, your kind words and thoughtful comments. If it weren’t for you, I’d just be talking to (typing at?) the wall. And even though I would still keep writing even if I didn’t have an audience, I’m ever so grateful that you’re here, that you’re listening, and that you care enough to help me spread the messages at the heart of BFD.
2013 has been pretty good to me. I was published twice, I became a certified personal trainer, took some amazing trips, completed my 10th and 11th half marathons, joined a gym and loved it, was in the paper!, and reconnected with some inspiring and incredible people. BFD grew – just a bit, but it grew. There were some bumps in the road, of course, but isn’t that what life’s about, learning from your mistakes, growing, trying new things, getting back up after you’ve fallen down by the ocean and sprained the heck out of your ankle?
As I look forward to 2014, I think about all the things I wish for: health and happiness and love, an end to body hatred and fat shaming, a kinder world for us to live in, a life to love and people to share it with. And I wish for more mistakes.
Wait, what? Who would wish for mistakes? Take it away, Neil Gaiman!
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something.
So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.
Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
Make your mistakes, next year and forever.
