New Years Walk

I've never really like New Years and the concept of New Years resolutions because the whole holiday seems so pointless to me. Tons of people partying and drinking and at the same time promising to completely turn their lives around the next day? It just seems weird to me. But with that being sad, my dad is a sucker for New Years resolutions. Every year he makes a list of his new goals and puts it on the fridge and pretty much forces us to come up with resolutions of our own. Usually I really really hate it but this year it was good because it gave me something to "reflect" about on my walk.

Obviously I started the walk at my house.

In the past I've hated where I lived. Its not because of my house or my neighborhood or anything like that, I love my house. It's because I live in Bonney Lake so my house always seems so far away from everything. However recently my Dad has been thinking about taking a job in Cincinnati, Ohio and even though I'm going college next year and would only really be living there in the summer the thought of us all moving to Ohio just seems really, really weird.  No offense to anybody that lives in Ohio but Ohio stinks and I don't want to leave Washington because it's home.  

There's a park near my neighborhood that I go walking in all the time with my dog so this assignment to take a "New Years Walk" was pretty easy for me to do because its something I would've just done on my own anyways, except I did feel a little weird taking pictures.

I usually come to the park with sister and we sit on the swings and listen to music. Recently I've been very intentional about spending more time with Abby since I'm leaving for freaking Iowa for college next year. I think she's really going to miss me and that it will be tough for her to be an only child but honestly I could be imaging all that and she doesn't need me at all. Either way I'm making it a priority to spend more time with her so I guess you could call that one of my "resolutions". Another one of my resolutions piggy backs of this one: I want to focus my energy into the relationships in my life that are worth my time and will last. I'm tired of spreading myself thin and putting effort into relationships that just aren't working. Obviously family is a relationship that is kinda forced to always be there, whether you lie it or not, so my bond with my sister is one that I want to focus on.  Since I've been spending more time with my sister recently I've realized that leaving my family for college will be alit more difficult than I expected it would be. My family and I definitely don't always see eye to eye so I've kind of always viewed college as a way to escape the things about my family thatI don't like. Then, I realized that that means I have to leave behind the things about my family that I do like and I often forget that. Family can suck sometimes but it can be really, really great at times too. I'm not gonna lie to you guys, I really aunt thinking about any of this on the walk like all of this just popped into my head while I was typing this but hey any reflection is a good refection right?? I spent most of my walk listening to Sam Smith's new album and looking at the pretty sunset and complaining to myself about how cold it was. I kind of cheated and used my "reflection" walk to run errands for my moms I walked to the store and bought her some peppers because she needed them to make spaghetti sauce. I have nothing to reflect about that, they just were normal peppers, but I'm still going to puta picture of me on the street near the store because why not? It turned out to be a pretty cool picture so I'm using this blog as a platform to kick-start my photography career. Well for anybody that actually made it this far through my "reflection" thanks for tuning in and reading about my boring life. - Hannah Glynn