2021 Wrapped 🎁

A group of homegirls and I ended 2020 together discussing what we’d leave behind. We made it real by writing it down on paper.

Yes, an old-fashioned, handwritten letter.

We tossed our letters into a make-believe fire (pulled up a fireplace video on YouTube) — that’s 10-points for creativity!

Afterwards, we wrote letters to our future selves describing in detail the things we wanted to take into 2021. We put each letter in a white 4x9 envelope and agreed to open them at the end of year.

On Sunday, I finally opened the envelope and read my letter.

I didn’t know if I should laugh or cry, but I knew my words carried so many emotions and I felt all of them in that moment.

Here are some of the things 2020 Taiwo told the 2021 version to remember.

Reading my self-addressed letter one year later allowed me to look back with gratitude and look forward with expectation, it taught me;

• What is important in the moment might turn out to be minuscule in the grand scheme of things.

• Sometimes life turns out different from what we hope, but exactly how it’s supposed to be.

• Time is such a valuable thing, treat it as such.

Seeing the words I wrote a year ago on paper reminded me to give myself grace, flowers, and a glass of Moscato because I deserve!

For all those times I doubted, and asked “but when God?” He answered by giving me the gift that is 2021. A year full of mountaintops + valleys, laughter + tears, endings + beginnings – this year was a reminder that my God doesn’t play about His children.

I look forward to reading the letter from 2021 Taiwo next year.

That’s a wrap folks!

〰T.

This journal entry was inspired by Spotify Wrapped.