It’s a refrain known around the world, and when you hear it, you immediately know to whom the world is referring, right?
Well, what would be your “It’s Britney, bitch” if you had one? What prompts others to immediately think of you?
And are you happy with your legacy?
Can we reinvent ourselves at 50 + years old?
These are the questions occupying my brain as we prepare to stroll into 2022.
I realized that the people I’m meeting here in my new town don’t know me as a grammar freak as my sisters-in-law do, they don’t know me as being a non-hugger as my coworkers do, and they don’t know me as introverted and antisocial as I do.
I can present to them the person I want to be without them having had the benefit of knowing 2021 Zoey. It’s pretty exciting. Imagine it like a sort of “pick your own adventure” type of game in which you decide what you want your life to be every single day.
I can leave thought patterns and behaviors that no longer serve me right here in 2021. I can leave behind the introverted antisocial grammar freak who doesn’t hug.
Wait, no. No, I’m not doing that. I’m bringing the non-hugging grammar freak into 2022. They still serve me well and I’m sure they’ll get along fine with happy, social, and self-aware waiting for me in 2022.
I can totally reinvent myself.
So can you.
I set my friend up with my old apartment in my hometown when I moved but I had forgotten to tell him about the pocket door between the toilet area and the sink area in one of the bathrooms. I took a picture and sent it to him.
And then realized the squatty potty was in the picture. But so what, right? I’m bringing that into 2022 also.
Sincerely writing,
Zoey