HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025

[Judi9877]

Happy new year and welcome to 2025 @Shaz51 @greenpea @Former-Member @TAB @MDT @Dimity @Glisten @PeppyPatti @Snowie @Appleblossom @Faith-and-Hope @Clawde @tyme @Jynx @Ru-bee @rav3n @Oaktree @Meowmy @avant-garde @Historylover @oceangirl @Lauz @Emelia8 @StuF @ENKELI @MJG017 @Captain24 @Adge and all forumites here! I hope you have a fabulous 2025!

@Shaz51 Thank you for all the wonderful things you do and have done on the forums over the last year! You are a forum superstar⭐️! I wish you all the best for the year in health, wellbeing and happiness!

As for me and 2025, I’m hoping things improve for me for the better after a tumultuous 2024. I’d like to work on achieving the following things:

- Spending more time on the forums as I’ve been absent last year for various reasons 

- Learning more about mental health and associated issues

- I’ve got a cruise planned in June which I’m really looking forward to

- I’m looking to go back and study Dementia after spending time in a dementia area as part of my placement for my Certificate IV in Leisure and Health last year which I learnt to enjoy.
- also like to try and do some reading of novels for pleasure instead of relying on my phone for ebooks and magazines (I’m trying to cut back on the time I spend on my phone on Facebook this coming year as I’ve noticed it’s not the best for my mental health)

- .l would  also like to look at getting back into cross stitching after doing some on my cruise holiday in September last year which I really enjoyed

- doing some mindfulness colouring in and drawing as well.

- Watching the final 3 seasons of Gossip Girl on the 9 app is on my list of things to complete as well as reliving my uni days with Hannah Montana on Disney 

- Hopefully securing a new rental property by December as I’ve been told my new current one isn’t being renewed 

- Spending more time being a friend to my housemate and helping her more 

- Hopefully celebrating a Brisbane Lions and Melbourne Storm Grand Final double in the AFL and NRL (wishful thinking I know but a girl can still dream!)

I heard a Australian cricketer say the following when he was dropped from the Australian Test team after 3 tests - ‘Don’t get bitter, get better’ - and this is something I’m hoping to take into this following year. Life is too short to be mad and angry about things. I’m hoping to be able to only focus on things I can control and not sweat the small things. Karma will happen and i believe that good things happen to good people, even if it may take a while for that to happen. The grey clouds will disappear eventually and the sun will return once again, even if it may not seem to be that way at the time. In the meantime, I’ll follow the simple Disney rules of life which are - Keep on swimming (Finding Nemo) and  Let it go (Frozen).

Enjoy 2025!

Take care and stay safe!

Judi9877🥳🌻🍀

[Former-Member]

@avant-garde that looks so yummy. 

[avant-garde]

@Former-Member 

That one's technically an iced mocha but it's the closest to the picture in my head with ice cream and sprinkles and chocolate

It even has the recipe...

[Former-Member]

@avant-garde i used to make myself iced coffees with ice cream but I haven't done that for years now. Everything is just too much effort anymore. 

[avant-garde]

@Former-Member 

It's difficult when you don't feel up for life... when it feels like the waves are crashing in and you can't seem to come up to breathe... it's too dark and the tunnel is too long... but there's something to be said for coming here and reaching out, that it's ok to not be ok.

We are not our battles, we aren't all the things we can't do, we are the ones that do more than any normal person can even imagine just by getting up each day.

We're the outcasts and the lonely, the forgotten and abused, the hurt and the broken, the ones that people seem to just say "oh they'll be right, they don't need me"

You are more than your circumstances, you matter, your voice matters and we hear you.

[Former-Member]

@avant-garde i just can't keep going like this, I'm completely broken beyond repair. This world has never been for me and it never will be. I've battled throughout my entire life and I can't anymore. 

[avant-garde]

@Former-Member 

I was taught some atrocious things growing up and I still battle with them every day of my life, my worth, my value, how could anyone love me after everything that's happened, why would anyone want me, so I know that no one is broken beyond repair...

There's a story I remember, that a girl carried two buckets of water home from the well, one had a crack in it and the other didn't. 

The girl didn't realise the crack in the bucket until she got home but the next time she went to fetch water she noticed on one side of the path were all these flowers where the water had been leaking from the cracked bucket. 

We may have been taught how to walk, talk and act a certain way by others in our lives but we are more than our pasts, we are more than our futures even, we are priceless.

[Former-Member]

@avant-garde I'm sorry for what you have been through and you didn't deserve any of it. I've been through so much and the damage that's been done because of that will stick with me forever. I'm completely replaceable, if I disappeared right now noone would miss me, noone would know I was even gone. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be, I really am just a mistake and I shouldn't have been born. 

[avant-garde]

@Former-Member 

Ok well that's wrong 

I would miss you

@MJG017 would miss you

We would notice

I was born not breathing, I was born dead, a female, told every day of my life that I was a useless mistake because of my gender. 

You are not a mistake, you are a kind and compassionate person who has had a horrible past that would be hard for anyone to overcome. 

But I know you can

I'm sorry but I need to sleep now... please don't give up...

[Dockers6]

Powerful words avant-garde, thankyou for sharing. You are not alone Glemin24, please reach out to the helplines this morning if you need further support other than the beautiful humans on this forum.
Dockers6