Halfway Through the Year: Gratitude, Growth, and Lessons

First of all, it's about gratitude for me to have come thus far in the year. I can still remember crossing over from last year into this year, with hopes and aspirations for better things and results in the new year. If there's one thing I've learnt in life, it is to be grateful. So even as we're halfway past the year and now into the other half, I'm thinking gratitude already. Gratitude now, not until the end of the year to be grateful and loud about it.

While I learnt gratitude, and the need to be grateful even for these months I've enjoyed through the year already, I've also learnt to be grateful for the things achieved so far. Yes, it's about gratitude first for that which I was able to gain before looking at other things within. This is also about recognising, appreciating and celebrating in a little way what has been achieved in the face of what is yet to be. Even small wins deserve some celebration.

I won't go all about gratitude in this post because that isn't the point of discussion. This is about recognising goals; the things set and planned to achieve and how it has been with all that so far. For me, it's been a privilege and once again I'm grateful for that. I've gained some lessons, new knowledge, new goals and some relationships. I value every one of those. The main thing for me this year was to GROW. Yes, growth it is.

To be able to grow in all respects was the desire. There might still be a long way to go since growth is a journey, and it's not a short one. But I've seen development in different respects which makes me nothing short of being appreciative and grateful for all of that thus far. Growth demands sacrifice, which is not negotiable. There's more, and still much to achieve or fulfil which demands that the effort towards achieving that growth shouldn't stop.

Even here in the blockchain, there was the desire and plan to grow. To have more knowledge and experience of this space, to form and develop some connections or relationships and to build my account in terms of power and all of that. I can say that I've seen growth. It's funny that it's at a time like this, when Hive is discouraging that I had growth in my mind and worked towards it. There's the desire to still grow, which I'll keep doing.

As mentioned, growth was the goal. While that's the desire, I can't say I've achieved it in all respects, which is something that has been difficult; trying to find balance and simultaneous growth in areas that matter. But I've learnt lessons in growth; to keep trying, pushing, learning, never giving up, taking chances, doing better and knowing rest is okay, while assessing what has been achieved, failures faced, and also being grateful amidst all.

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