One of my Christmas traditions is to get a new Christmas ornament every year – an ornament that somehow reminds me of the past year. It is almost a whimsical feeling to unpack all the ornaments once a year and hang them one by one on the tree while reminiscing past years. I just love the meaningfulness of each ornament and I am (almost) looking forward to see how my Christmas tree will look like in, say, 20 years.
This year has been full of changes; settling down in Finland after spending a long time abroad, unpacking everything just to pack everything again, finishing law school, deciding to move to Australia years before we had planned, applying to universities… It has been a very fast-paced year but at the same time it has simply been an amazing year, maybe the best one till now.
Especially during the past year my family has sometimes had a hard time to keep up with my life – sometimes even I have only barely managed to keep up with my own life. I suppose being spontaneous is good, then you don’t have too much time to think. I’ve noticed that it quite suits me - no matter how great the past year has been and how excited I am about the following years, I am feeling a little bit melancholic; I suppose I’ve never been the biggest fan of changes.. and the biggest change of them all is just around the corner.
It is almost an extraordinary feeling; the combination of being very excited about something that is about to happen but also at the same time being a little melancholic about everything that is being left behind. But, don’t they say that the only way is going forward?
In the middle of all these feelings it was very easy to pick this year’s ornament. A sparkly heart. After all, the reason for why this year has been full of changes is so very simple but yet complicated; love. I may be going away from many things and people I love but, well, what could be a better reason to do that than The Love? And, in all honesty, everything I am leaving behind soon will always be there - just a plane ride away, waiting.
That is pretty damn amazing.
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