Happy New Year 2007

I’m sure I’m not the only blogger using the eve of 2007 as a reason to reflect on the past year. 2006 has been an interesting year for me – I’ve finished school for good, and hopefully left behind some of the pettiness and homophobia that is all to present throughout the education system – with both teachers, non teaching staff, and pupils. I’ve moved to England for further study, and it’s so far been everything I thought it would be. The independence afforded is something I highly recommend to all lesbian/gay young people who feel their home situation restricts their social life.

Aside from the educational and practise elements of the past year, I think I’m in a very different position now than I was last year. I try not to use reference points to judge the state of my life, because I think that nostalgia will always leave the judgement unbalanced.

This time last year I wrote:

The future is also unbelievably humbling. There is nothing to bring a lump to your throat quite like the confusion it presents. This time next year, I have no idea what I’ll be doing, where I’ll be. Change doesn’t necessarily scare me, but the passing of time does. I’m not worried about the future – just uncertain.

Again I can say, this time next year, I don’t know how my life will really stand. I don’t know what people will have moved into my life and changed it all, and I don’t know who will not be part of the life I’ll choose to live. I could claim I’m certain of the future, but if we do that it is certain that there will be obstacles to change plans.

I like to think that I’ve grasped 2006 as I said I would. For too long in my past I have failed to grasp what has since passed me by.

I wish you luck with whatever you plan to do, and whatever you do in 2007.

Just make sure you take time to grasp 2007.