{"id":7292,"date":"2025-01-01T08:25:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T08:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edasofia.com\/?p=7292"},"modified":"2025-01-01T08:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T08:39:09","slug":"dear2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edasofia.com\/en\/dear2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear 2024,"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dear 2024,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You were not soft nor gentle. Instead, you challenged me, forcing me to step into the biggest fear and discomfort I\u00b4ve ever experienced. I\u2019m not sure I am grateful for this, but I thank myself for having had the strength to walk through it; at times so slowly it felt as if I was creeping backwards and others almost sprinting, trying to run away from myself. Regardless, I am here. Starting a new year, and for anyone who knows me, this by itself is embedded with meaning. You\u00b4ve taught me that what sometimes feels like a massive failure is indeed growth and that staying true to your needs and boundaries can be the loneliest and most scary thing to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So here I am, at the threshold of 2025, in hopes that if anything, I can grow to be more compassionate towards myself & the myriad \u201cI\u00b4s\u201d that inhabit me; the dark and sticky ones as well as those who dance it out when everyone is watching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year I am not making any commitment to change myself. I am not trying to sever any bit in an attempt to be \u201cless\u201d of anything; intense, impulsive, emotional, angry, sad, excited, bewildered, wild. Instead, I am leaning with great desire towards a more compassionate relationship with myself and others. I will try and fail and try again, every day, to widen the space between stimulus and reaction, so that I more graciously, but above all, more wholeheartedly ride the waves of this tumultuous and wonderful life I\u00b4ve been given by mere chance and coincidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you, to each and every one who has been there for me this year; holding me, listening to my rants and supporting my sadness. Thank you to all of those who see me beyond the limits I impose on myself and to those who challenge me to tap into areas that I mostly avoid. Thank you for the joyous nights and the quiet mornings, but fuck sleepless nights that shatter my mood. I celebrate my novel being published and everyone involved in it. And thank you, especially to me, and the space I\u00b4ve created for growth and healing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am forever grateful; and forever in love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eda Sof\u00eda<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PS: May the tears we\u00b4ve shed in 2024 nourish the seeds we\u00b4re planting in 2025.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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You were not soft nor gentle. Instead, you challenged me, forcing me to step into the biggest fear and discomfort I\u00b4ve ever experienced. <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[336,337],"class_list":["post-7292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-dear-2024","tag-no-new-year-committments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edasofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edasofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edasofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edasofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edasofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7292"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/edasofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7337,"href":"https:\/\/edasofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7292\/revisions\/7337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edasofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edasofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edasofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edasofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}