Rolling into Resolutions | Setting New Goals for 2024

2023 has been amazing, of course with some ups and downs but it has been one of the best years of my life and I have a strong feeling that 2024 is even gonna be better! I am curious where the road will lead me, as the road is yet unknown. I am looking forward to the new adventures I will encounter and to what this journey is gonna teach me. I am looking forward to the new connections I will make. I am looking forward to the problems I get myself in and get myself out of. I am gonna try to embrace every moment in its own way. Good experiences to enjoy, the bad ones to learn from.
There are also things I wanna do or do differently or new in 2024. That's why I'm gonna write down some of my new year's resolutions which will make 2024 even more Epic!

My new year's resolutions

- I am finally gonna learn how to play the ukulele. I bought it a couple of years ago and as soon as I started playing my younger sister started complaining -must be my talent😂- It is not the most motivating way to learn a new skill and was for me the reason to put it away. However, I started again and I am not gonna stop this time I promised myself! So far it is going pretty well :)
- I am planning to start with Via Ferrata's. It is something inbetween hiking and climbing on a trail in the mountains. Something that would definitely give me some little pinch of fear and some free adrenaline. It will be a good new challenge! I am really looking forward to trying it out.
- I want to try some days of winter camping with my van and experience how that is. On my free days I can go Snowboarding and try to gain some new skills.
- I am gonna eat healthier. I am gonna eat a little more of what I eat too little and a little less of what I eat too much.
I am gonna eat less animal products (mainly less dairy, milk is really my comfort "food" where people in the movies grab a bottle of Whiskey I would grab a bottle of milk). I am also gonna quit my daily cereals and replace them with pancakes or oats. I am gonna eat more protein as well. Also, I often go for a hike or so without eating or get breakfast at 4pm. If I go for a hike I should eat breakfast at least. I barely feel hunger so the busier I am the less I eat. Sometimes I realize that I haven't had breakfast yet when it is almost dinnertime.
- I am gonna spend more time learning to make more & new things in my kitchen. Especially Healthy foods. I wanna start making Tempeh and Kimchi and Vegetable burgers, Masala Dosi, & home made Oat Milk.
- I am gonna travel slower. Instead of wanting to see a country in a couple of weeks I should take it easy, it is okay to stay one week in one place and spend an off day cooking, cleaning and maybe going for a walk, a roller skate or a swim instead of doing anything touristy.
- I am going for at least 4 weekends to camp with just my tent and no artificial light, alone. Maybe in the mountains, maybe along the river. I don't know exactly where yet but at least in nature. I believe that spending a day or two without any artificial ligt and just having the moon and stars around have something special, something magical. It feels like how it is supposed to be and it feels like a retreat for my mental health. However, since I have lights in my van I aways turn the lights on in the evening, in winter especially. It is some form of toxic comfort to me. Like hot showers and unhealthy comfort foods and TVs. I believe everyone should experience at least a couple of days without artificial light and experience the rhythm of the sun and the moon.

• and Finally: I want to be more creative with my photography and Hive and just post it instead of leaving it in my drafts! I guess I still have more than 100 things left to share on my camera and a lot of drafts saved on my Hive. Sometimes I'm just lazy since I put a lot of time into my travel blogs. With other blogs I often feel like it is not good enough to share or sometimes I am just afraid that people just think that I am stupid (I have a whole Sunset thought series in my drafts with all kinds of subjects I think about, usually about life). But in the end, It shouldn't matter too much what people think and nobody here ever gave me a reason not to share my blogs or thoughts so I should just get over it and share a little more instead of using my drafts as a personal diary of thoughts :)