“It feels fitting to be writing this after driving domestic on empty roads at 1:30 in the morning. It made for the perfect mix of teenage angst and nostalgia,which in many ways sums up 2014 for me. When I post this, the date next to it is going to read December 31st, or 2014. The conclude. In this year,I felt the very best and worst things about being young. In this year I ached for freedom and I reveled in it when it came. I fell in love, but I also learned just how profound completely platonic love can be. I learned to stretch that love over miles and countries. And I wrote about it all here. I’m so proud of that. I’m so proud that by my approximation I only skipped about 15 days of writing (not counting late posts/ weird time zone posts). 350 out of 365 is a feat that I am proud of. I know that there were so many days when I sat down with no notion what to write and no desire to figure out what to write. That’s where you arrive in. Thank you. Thank you so much for living my 18th year with me. Whether you joined my journey in January or joined it in December, or thank you. I would like to say that I would have carried on with this resolution without a following,but I really don’t think thats true. Your messages, your notes, or knowing that you were there and reading and being changed or affected by the my naive,lovesick, love-struck, or angsty ramblings truly means the world to me. That is why this is not the conclude. I promise you that I will continue to post and continue to write,but my fresh resolution is to post only things that I am extremely proud of, nothing forced. possibly that will mean posting every day sometimes, or possibly that will mean posting once a month other times. I want to feel and then write in a natural progression again and I carry out hope that you stay here and carry on in this fresh chapter of my journey.
I feel like I have so many more things to say,but Ive lost the ability to say them eloquently. And so I leave you with this: Dear reader, thank you for watching as I had the privilege of experiencing one hell of a 2014. Here’s to a wonderful 2015 for the both of us.” - “The conclude” by Claire Luis
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