Your lips are dried up, constantly begging you to reapply your gloss to avoid looking like a roughly patched wall. Your neighbor’s speaker wakes you up with the familiar sound of “Onwa December eruwe go!” The month of December is here.
Your friend is finally free to bask in the laziness of wash-and-wear. You don’t need to be reminded to rub cream and even oil, because if you don’t, you’d look unkempt, like you just had a bath with water expertly mixed with cement.
Can you believe it? We are in the last month of 2024, the very last chapter of a 366-page book. You know that feeling that comes with getting to the last chapter of a book — you're excited to start another and at your ten toes hoping the author doesn’t spoil all their efforts by rushing everything so that que sera will be sera immediately.
Yes, that’s the feeling of December — the anticipation of new things planned for the next year and the feeling that all your remaining plans for 2024 should suddenly come through. It’s thrilling, like a good thriller book.
The excitement of December has only been a thing for me, not just because of Christmas clothes, shoes, special dishes, and traveling home but because it’s a month to rewind and rest. You get to rethink your decisions for the year — evaluating what worked and what didn’t.
To me, it’s that month I get to see everyone I love together, eating, telling jokes, and talking about the experience of the year.
It’s that month I plan for the next year. Guess what? I barely end up with any well-thought-out plans.
And I’d be lying if I don’t add that it’s the best month to get oppressed and depressed just scrolling through the internet — matching pajamas (a new trend will surely emerge this year), trips to beautiful places, people showing they are living the life, and most importantly, the yearly wrap-ups (with that thank you for the happiest year of my life tone).
And you and I are just there with our phones, doing… nothing!
I’m writing this early this month to tell you not to get swallowed up.
Of course, it’s easy for social media to reduce your achievements once it’s face-to-face with someone bigger, but fear not! Don’t exhaust all your “God whens” and “wows.” Remember to give yourself a hug — you’ve done so well.
Happy new month.
That “thank you for the happiest year of my life” got me laughing😂. This year was IT but we move! Thank you for this beautiful newsletter♥️
“You don’t need to be reminded to rub cream and even oil, because if you don’t, you’d look unkempt, like you just had a bath with water expertly mixed with cement” REAL! I hate this weather 😭