Dear Me 2025

Dear Me,

Lower your expectations. This is not a resolution statement. Having learned the hard way, I no longer make promises I can't keep.

Life and loss have a way of intervening with the best laid plans. That has happened to me enough times that I hope I have learned my lesson. I am changed.

Life and loss take a toll. Something else has reared its head now and that is age. Age and disability loom large in my existence.

Aging is a reality and a challenge. What once came easily is now an uphill battle every single day.

Having completed a year in Grief Counseling, I have learned that setting small goals is good. Why is that so? Because I am forced to focus outside myself, if only in a small way on a daily basis.

The goals have to be doable and reasonable, given my physical and emotional limitations.

So, here are my ten things. I aim for doing one a day. If I do more than one of the things on my list, I reward myself in a small way, so there is positive reinforcement. If I do all the things on the list in one day, I will buy my self something on amazon or buy gift points here. I have the same list written out offline to keep track of what I do, day by day.

Pray and work on forgiveness

Count my blessings

Write something

Read something

Drive somewhere

Grocery Shop

Watch a favorite movie

Call someone

Declutter

Clean something in my house


Me, I promise I will try my best to refer to this list and keep up with it in 2025. I forgive myself for every day I fall short, every day I forget, and every day I fail.

Yes, me. I forgive me.

That's life in 2025 for an aging widow, having lost mott , my other half, the best part of me.

Good luck.

Me.

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