2015 Memories

2015 was an amazing year for me.  I have experienced a great many things, made new friends and learned a lot.  At the start of the year I saw a post on Facebook about keeping a jar and filling it full of notes about the things you have done over the year and opening it the following New Year’s Eve.  I thought it was a brilliant idea and so I created a jar of my own.  I decided that I would try and write a note for each day.  The note would have something I was proud of, accomplished, grateful for or something that made me happy.  I didn’t end up doing one for every day but I filled the jar none the less.  When I woke up this morning I was super excited because I knew that I was going to get to open it tonight.  I had no clue what all I wrote down although certainly I could think of a few big moments that I knew were in it.

After dinner I opened it up and poured it out.  It was a jar full of scraps of different sizes and shapes of paper.  Some are cut nicely and some were just torn but each piece had a moment captured from 2015. 

What surprised me is how amazing it felt to look through them.  I knew that I had accomplished a lot this year but seeing all the things I wrote down was amazing.  Big moments like doing my Canmore 5k were featured just as prominently as small moments like a day spent cuddling with my cat.  I recorded good deeds, good thoughts and lots of gratitude for the people in my life.  It was the prefect reminder of all the special moments from this last year a lot of which probably wouldn’t have been remembered or recognized otherwise.

Of all the slips of paper one theme stands out.  It was very apparent that this year was a year in which I was focusing on moving more.  The vast majority of the things I recorded were moments from the gym or to do with working out.  I suppose it also speaks to how much joy I have found this year in learning just how far I can push my body.  One of the coolest parts of this jar full of moments is that I got to see the improvements in what I was doing at the gym.  It shows me lifting more, running faster and longer and just trying new things.  It is a pretty cool reminder of just how much I really have accomplished towards my goal to a healthier me. 

Anyway here is a sample of 30 of my favourite notes from the last year.

This has been such a very cool project.  I look forward to once again doing it in 2016.  It has been a great way to reflect on the year that has passed.

I hope that everyone has an amazing New Year and that 2016 will fill all of your jars with amazing moments.