My 2021 Word Found Me
Guest Prompt Week 3, Day 2: Bingz Huang — If you’ve chosen to focus on a particular word for the year 2021, what are your experiences and insights from embodying and reflecting on this word for the past half year?
2021 So strange this year ends in one For the world changed one year before Gone was leisurely travel here or there Gone was chilling with friends or family Found was a light off in the distance Found was a few effective vaccines.
The year began in turmoil that was clear We turned the page, but like a wind gust The page kept trying to turn back again The page finally turned but at big cost Yes lessons were learned energy spent The turmoil decided to just go inside.
The work being done a post streak begun One hundred thirty plus posts by the end But what was the internal need to share What did the search for words free from me It was not a word that I chose for me It was the word that jumped out of need My inner voice would not be kept mute.
Woken sudden it would not leave until freed The word that just filled my inner need That word would become my written creed Not just a word but a feeling inside I thought for my readers but not just you It came and it stayed a calming inside.
The word of the year to get rid of all fear PEACE be with you and also with me
REFLECTIONS:
I am normally not the type of person that does New Year’s resolution. I am also not the type of person that focuses on a word or a phrase for the year. My goal since I started all this work is to just keep improving or try to each day. I try not to compare myself to others and just work on being a better version of myself each day. One day in January I started doing daily posts. I had no goal in mind when I started it. It went on for over 130 straight days until I voluntarily ended it so as not to have it feel like I had to post every day. I am not sure when it happened but one night I woke up and could not get the word PEACE out of my mind. I couldn’t get back to sleep until I finally got up and wrote it down. I have ended each post since with Peace be with you. I thought it originally was a thought that I was to fill everyone else with. I realized after others mind you already knew it, Peace be with you was meant for me also and I was sharing it with everyone else. I have felt more at peace since that night. Things are not always peaceful and I am working through things now, but a sense of peace is still there that everything will be done as it is meant to happen. When I first read the prompt I thought I might not have a word to talk about, until my feeling of Peace came to mind and knew it was what I was supposed to write about.
Peace be with you