Goodbye 2011 .......You have been the year of great challenges... It has been by far my most rewarding year to date.. the year I rediscovered myself - and reinvented myself, as Java Jane the coffee connoisseur!!!
Although I posed myself with a lighthearted challenge which has been a joyful and spirited.. It hasn't however been without its pain and hard times.... with all great challenges there are battles to be fought in the real world... sometimes I won.. and other times I lost...felt lost...was lost... These moments just reminded me it was ok to feel like this, normal even.
What I was dealing with in my world was a major life change, so sometimes it would have been easier to surrender, where giving up seemed like the easier option...but that's not my style, the fighter in me wanted to keep going, knowing these challenges were just minor bumps in the road!
Although I posed myself with a lighthearted challenge which has been a joyful and spirited.. It hasn't however been without its pain and hard times.... with all great challenges there are battles to be fought in the real world... sometimes I won.. and other times I lost...felt lost...was lost... These moments just reminded me it was ok to feel like this, normal even.
What I was dealing with in my world was a major life change, so sometimes it would have been easier to surrender, where giving up seemed like the easier option...but that's not my style, the fighter in me wanted to keep going, knowing these challenges were just minor bumps in the road!
This year I knew I had to grapple with my situation head on...Single motherhood, I hated saying it out loud, or telling people, let alone think about how it was going to impact my life forever.... However my way of dealing with it head on probably wasn't the conventional route! I had a brilliant idea for grappling with this lousy situation by immersing myself in something that I enjoy, love to do, my daily pleasure... my soy cappuccino.
Somehow I thought this could help me get through the year in one piece... or at least feeling a bit more me and a lot less fragile.. and you know what, it really did work!! I did immerse myself in everything coffee..
2011 will forever be the year that coffee defined me and shaped my life.. It was the oxygen for me to breath.. it was the Valium to keep me relaxed and happy... it was the morphine for when I was in pain... it was my source of energy..... it was my adventure, my journey.my addiction.. it motivated me in ways nothing else has ever done.. I thrived on the discovery of the new, new people, new places, new feelings.. Deciding to document this in my blog helped to really bring out the best in me... I discovered that I loved to write.. loved to take pictures.. (I knew this already, but it became heightened in the experience!) I loved sharing my story... I didn't care if it was only my mum and close friends that read it.. the point was I got to tell my story through coffee.. and that was the best therapy I could ever ask for.. and a heck of a lot cheaper......
So when December 31 came around and I had reached 96 cafes (almost to my goal of 100!!) I started pondering what challenge would await me when the clock struck midnight and 2012 arrived.... Was I going to keep on going, do the 2012 coffee list... or was I ready for a new challenge, new adventure??? I still haven't worked out the answer to this question... maybe I will just keep writing and exploring how I can make my blog my place to document bits and pieces of my life. I have enjoyed meeting like minded people and sharing loves and lives... I still have an urge to include coffee as it has helped me heal so much! I'm just not too sure what will bring out the best in me... so for the moment I will keep on searching... I may set myself small challenges throughout the year, but for now I will just keep sharing my story.......
If anyone has an idea.. feel free to share... I am looking for inspiration!!!
If anyone has an idea.. feel free to share... I am looking for inspiration!!!
I did her quiz... and I realised I am a wannabe groupie... I have to check it out more often than I do!!!
Until next time
Life is too short to drink crappy coffee...
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