By Caitlin Cruz
Wow, this year has been a ride. I feel like it was just yesterday I was writing the first blog piece of this semester, and now here I am writing the last. I feel like I did my goals proud this year. Well, some of them at least, still working on the whole stress thing. 😅
I feel like this year I didn’t necessarily grow much in the school area. Not to ring my own bell, but I’ve been a straight-A student basically my whole life, so in the school world I don’t have a lot of room to grow, but in my own life, I have quite a bit.
This year I wrote my goals more focused on emotions and growing more as a human, and I feel I did that quite a bit this year. One of the biggest things I changed about myself was starting to worry more if I liked myself, and not if other people liked me.
While I have not completely gotten in control of my stress, I have gotten a lot better. I have been able to get in control of it enough that my stomach no longer hurts, but I do get stress-related bloody noses a lot. 😅 But one thing I am proud of is that I have been able to spread more awareness of the physical effects of stress. I think it’s important for people to know stress can present itself in many ways.
One of the moments I’m most proud of myself for was in the blog club open mic. I feel like I presented myself well while talking and did it in my own way. So I found a balance between being myself and doing what I need to do, so I was really proud of myself.
Letter to my future self:
I hope this letter finds us well. When you start stressing over the small things, I want you to think back to this. I want you to think back to those quiet moments where you are just you. No theatre or audience, just you and how happy you are. I want that for us, but we need to work on it together.
Okay, enough of the sappy stuff, good luck out there, me. Also good luck to all of you reading this; this is not a goodbye, but a see you later!
Cat out! 🐈✌️
