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The Final Day Of 2024 – A Time To Reflect And Look Forward!

by Antonia

New year, new day, new resolutions. What has 2025 got in store for you?

2024 has gone in a flash. Each year for me personally, especially in your 20’s is like an earthshaking life lesson you didn’t want, but needed. You learn more about your character, life in general and everything in between you didn’t expect or forecast. When you’re really young, you’re in a rush to grow up and do whatever you want, then when the time comes, you’re still setting the foundations and assessing the groundwork. Trial and error is your middle name! They say your 20’s are for making mistakes, but it’s actually what you learn from them which will be worthwhile and strategic on your path forward. You see many spanning across a wide age range, somewhat unsettled and displeased at what life is today, like its anticlimactic. 

That daunting realisation causes you to up the ant, further heightening your senses to the point of questioning whether that could be the future you. If so, it’s highly discouraging for future generations.

They say live life to the fullest, but the definition is limitless depending on the crowd you’re in and whom you ask. We overcomplicate the concept of life and what it means to us. We over-season it and readily invite far too many cooks into the kitchen, spoiling the simplest of recipes concocted. Nature knows best has become manufactured like a synthetic, simulated stone replicating the beauty that life organically symbolises. Where’s the hype in that?

Courage, boundaries, confidence and freedom are some of the powers most needed in life which takes time to establish, understand, develop and mature, which will lead to prosperity in many different fields in life. Happiness is the final destination, be cautious not to choose a fixed period of illustrative joy over a life of sustainable infinite contentment that happiness lies within, as life is a long journey. Fulfil your destiny and you’ll never look back.

The past has made us who and what we are. Take note of your future self, that’s what you’re working towards. Everything else along the way will fall into place. Life: the greatest present you’re forever indebted to. Hey, the least we can do is enjoy the ride!

Let’s ring in ‘25! May your dreams light up your path in 2025. Wishing you and yours a happy, safe, healthy and prosperous new year!

What are you looking forward to in 2025? How has 2024 treated you? Is there a specific year you’re looking forward to for a special reason? Did you have a happy holidays? Comment below!

37 thoughts on “The Final Day Of 2024 – A Time To Reflect And Look Forward!”

      1. Thankyouu! 2024 sounds like an extremely eventful year for you!
        I’m sure 2025 has so much in store for you too🫶. Wishing you happiness, hope and love😊🤍

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    2. Very much so; I hope things are looking up for you now entering into 2025 and sending my best wishes for the new year. A year filled with love, laughter, unforgivable moment and most importantly – joy!
      Thankyouu so much, Kevin!! Hope you had a blissful holiday season🤗🎄🥳🤍

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  2. I have some things to do next month like find a new tax man and other important things but I see 2025 as being a good year, think positive! In your 20s? So young!

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    1. The tax man is the last person on my mind entering into 2025, I thought the goal for the day was to be positive at the very least😂😂. Aw happy to hear 2025 is looking great for you, it’s looking far better than 2024 for me, which is the key to growth and improvement. Mid-20’s isn’t very young; collagen is no longer on my side haha!
      I hope you’ve a wonderful holiday season!!🤗🎄🥳🤍

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      1. Thank you, Antonia! I’m 64, so 25 is a good way behind me yet I still feel 25 in my mind! It’s so not fair… I hope you have the best year ever, Antonia! 🙏🏻❤️😎🇬🇧

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  4. Life is not one long journey – it is very short indeed, in the great scheme of things, I don’t really wish to dwell on 2023 for far to many it has been a year not to be repeated, wars, and rumours of war,  however we travel hopefully into 2025, let it be the year of the dove.

    I am planning my next trip to France cycling the La Vélodyssée from Roscoff down to Behobie on the Spanish border. It is not a holiday it the true sense of the word, for it is my lifestyle now, and will be for as long as the undertaker allows.  

    The La Vélodyssée is a well trodden path, so lots of details from all sort that have travelled that way before me, but I have been going on to Google Map and looking up not only places along the route (and there are plenty of pictures) but also looking at places along the route that may be worth a detoured.  

    I will change my starting point to my journey (landing further north), simply because I always like to visit my grandfather’s grave, William died of his wounds, in the Great War. He was wounded during the Battle of Frezenberg and evacuated from the battlefield to No.11 General Hospital, a Base Hospital at Boulogne, arriving on 12th May 1915. He died of wounds that night. His wife was notified of his death by letter from the Hospital Matron who wrote, dated 13th May 1915, in the following terms: I am very sorry to tell you that your husband, 9690 Private William Campbell, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, was brought down here last evening at 7:50pm in an unconscious condition, suffering from a very dangerous wound in the head. He never recovered consciousness and died at 10 the same night without saying a word.

    My sister’s father-in-law (both now deceased) at the time she married his son, give her a small badge/brooch, it was a First World War field gun and inscribed around the outside was the words, “Bethune 1914 – 1915”. It had no real commercial value, cheaply made and possibly sold by the hundreds. But it must have meant a great deal to Old Ally as he was always known.

    Ally fought in the First World War, and when I started my research from the name on the brooch, I found that Bethune was an important railway junction and command centre for the British Canadian Corps and Indian Expeditionary Force as well as the 33rd Casualty Station until December 1917. During that time, you could not divulge any detail of where you were in your letters home, so many would have send such tokens as this little brooch home to wives or sweethearts, just to let them know they were alive, and had arrived safely in France and were now in the town of Béthune.

    The town suffered little damage initially until the second phase of the Ludendorff Offensive in April 1918, when German forces reached Locon 5 km (3 miles) away. On 21 May, a bombardment destroyed large parts of the town, killing more than 100 civilians. Over 3,200 casualties are buried in Bethune Town Cemetery the Commonwealth section. The majority are British (2,933) or Canadian (55), the remainder German. Seems only the dead know an end to war.

    I never found out why Ally was there, just passing through on his way to the front, or stationed there, for it was a casualty station and evacuation point for the wounded. So has gone on the list of places I would wish to visit when next in France.

    I always leave in early April, before the tourist season gets underway, yes, you may have to put up with a little colder weather, but traffic free roads, and cycle lanes, and lack of people makes visit places of interest without bus loads of visitors, worth a little discomfort.

    I normally manage to spin my money out for a month sometimes a little longer, and normally come home at least a stone lighter and penniless, but with my head full to overflowing with memories.

    So whatever your hopes and dreams are for 2025 I wish you health and happiness in your endeavours. And keep writing, keep sharing. Walter.   

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    2. Your trip to France sounds spectacular, I’m sure you’ll see some breathtaking sights and make some wonderful memories you’ll forever cherish.

      I’m so sorry to hear about your grandfather and his passing especially under such conditions. The badge/brooch must have immense sentimental value.

      Your research must’ve uncovered details that you wouldn’t have known otherwise, bringing you even closer to your grandfather’s memory, stories that can also be passed down generations which are all so treasured, expressing a variety of emotions I can only imagine, including gratitude, sadness, pride and more.

      Thankyou so much for sharing, Walter. Sending prayers and blessings for 2025; wishing you and yours health, happiness and good fortune this new year🙏🤍

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    1. Thankyouu so much for your kindness! Wishing you and your family a wonderful year ahead filled with joy, blessings, good health and love.
      Thankyouu again and here’s to 2025!
      Hope you had a very happy holidays🤗🫶

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    1. And I forgot to mention that I’m bookmarking this piece you’ve written here, because every word just speaks to me.
      2024 was a weird year for me, I learned quite a few things about myself.

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      1. I’m so glad to hear that it resonates to deeply, that’s made my day🤍.
        We can learn so much from the highs and lows that come our way, the lessons that remain are significant on our path forwards. Observation is growth🙏🤍

        Thankyouu so much for sharing and being so kind!! May your 2025 sparkle with joy, shine, hope and love🥳🤗🤍

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