In the advent of a new year, everyone scrambles to throw together resolutions, usually for the sake of following the age old tradition. Year after year, I follow suit, setting goals that are fairly surface and bound to be broken. By March, I simply find myself off track and have forgotten what I’d originally set out to accomplish.
This year, I’ve come up with something a little bit different. I’m not going to call this a New Year’s resolution. I’m going to call this more of a “life wake up call.”
Invest wisely.
No, I’m not talking about investing in the stock market or mutual funds. I’m talking about investing love: Love for family, love for friends, love for myself.
This past year has brought many changes to my life: graduation, an interim move back to Sioux Falls, the beginning of my Alabama adventure of grad school and job, and all the adjustment periods in between. In the midst of these changes, my investments changed as well. The amount of love never lessened, but my way of showing that love did from time to time.
In the hustle and bustle of each day, it’s easy to stop investing to the fullest because we’re so overwhelmed with what’s on our plate. A new job, new surroundings, a new way of life. We’re constantly trying to get our lives in order, spending time on things that don’t always invest back into us. These things we’ve invested into may fade, and at the end of the day, what we’re left with are the people and relationships we’ve put our time and energy into.
So the goal is to invest more love into family, friends, and myself. This may mean picking up the phone, even though I’m not much of a phone chatter. It means sending more cards and emails “just because.” It means taking time daily to do things for myself, like writing and listening to music, instead of being bombarded with work and school.
While I’ve always thought of myself as a thoughtful person, it’s become more evident how important these relationships are and how much love I should invest into them. They’ve been the rock in the midst of all these life changes and will continue to be my stronghold.
“The way you invest your love, you invest your life.” So invest wisely.
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