2016 Word of the Year
Dec. 30th, 2015 02:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysobelI don't -- can't -- do New Year's resolutions in the standard sense, because my brainweasels mean I can't really set goals. If I fail to meet them, I just get vicious against myself -- partly for just not meeting the goal, partly for either having set a goal too high or for the added patheticness of failing an easy goal.
But for the last several years, at the beginning of the year I try to set a ... I don't know how to describe it. Focus word and/or phrase, maybe? This last year it was "trust"; before that, love. I've used "be a cat", i.e. Do what I want when I want and be queen of my life, and "be a dog", i.e. Focus in the moment rather than past or future, love wholly whatever I am doing and love unconditionally. It's not really a resolution in the standard sense of doing, it's just something to re-center myself on.
This year's word is Lego.
It surprised me, and it is kind of different, but it feels right, and, well, it clicked. Like legos. Heh.
On one level, it represents creativity, and making things. Which I want to do, yarning and writing and coloring.
On another level, you can only build brick by brick, and the individual changes are small, but it adds up. So if I do one row of crochet it's not a big difference, but if I do one row a day for a month that's 30-ish rows. If I spend fifteen minutes a day writing, it eventually gives me a story. Etc.
But for the last several years, at the beginning of the year I try to set a ... I don't know how to describe it. Focus word and/or phrase, maybe? This last year it was "trust"; before that, love. I've used "be a cat", i.e. Do what I want when I want and be queen of my life, and "be a dog", i.e. Focus in the moment rather than past or future, love wholly whatever I am doing and love unconditionally. It's not really a resolution in the standard sense of doing, it's just something to re-center myself on.
This year's word is Lego.
It surprised me, and it is kind of different, but it feels right, and, well, it clicked. Like legos. Heh.
On one level, it represents creativity, and making things. Which I want to do, yarning and writing and coloring.
On another level, you can only build brick by brick, and the individual changes are small, but it adds up. So if I do one row of crochet it's not a big difference, but if I do one row a day for a month that's 30-ish rows. If I spend fifteen minutes a day writing, it eventually gives me a story. Etc.
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