The latter part of the year 2023 and along with 2024 has had its changes in my life. Some changes have been easy to accept while others have been more challenging to do so. Some changes make us stronger, and some make us struggle, but in the end, we must move forward and part of that is understanding life how it is today and going forward.

2024 taught many of those that life can change in an instant. Life sure did change for many of us and this year will be no different. Part of that is that I have to adult more and work on being more independent than I was in years past. It was not the life that I intended for myself or what the future would look like for me. The reality is that I knew that there would be a day that would require me to be more independent than I was in the past.

Thankfully, to some degree, I am grateful for some of the changes that took place in 2023 and 2024. One of those changes allowed me to be more independent such as using shared ride buses to get to day services and eventually work. I would later use the medical portion to go for blood testing and some medical appointments when family could not take me. Using shared ride has given me the skillset and patience that I will need to have when there is more of a need to be more independent in the future and even though a few weeks ago I didn’t want to accept the fact that I would need to be more independent, the reality is that time will appear anyway.

Another thing about changing life last year is that it is going to cause me to have to open more as time goes on. As we are experiencing one of the coldest winters in many years presently, that will come in due time and as I guess uncomfortable as that may seem, I may have to do more things that may seem different to me or work at things as I feel more comfortable doing them.

If there is any life lesson I learned in 2024, it is that your life can change in an instant and you are dealt with the hand with which you are dealt. I would never have believed that life could change that instantly for me, but it did. I wanted to believe that things would change for the better and there would be many things that would remain, but the fact that things will change eventually, and I will have to grow as time evolves.

2024 has made me stronger in the respect that I know that I have the capacity to do things that I could not even imagine and there are so many more opportunities that are going to be in my future even if I cannot see them. Some things that I may see as a pain in my side are there to teach me to grow stronger and be more resilient than what I have been in many years. Life has always been good to me when I least expected it, I feel that eventually it will get better for me, and I will have more of a stronger community bond as time goes on.