BONNE ANNÉE

This text is best read with music, with the music with which I have written it:

“Flower Xmas Market” - List. Vincent Moustache - LINK

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NEW YEAR NEW ME

The greeting that I like the most is the following one: I wish you the best of this year and all the good things to come. Sounds strange, doesn't it?

It's the season of resolutions, it's time to congratulate the future and wish us love, health and luck. I like to congratulate the present. The present is, at the moment, the only place where I am sure I will continue to live.

When we put happiness in the future, when we build a better "me" in the future, in the long run it becomes blurry and difficult to achieve. The future is, by definition, unattainable.

Personally, I prefer next year's resolutions to be a reflection of the ones I am fulfilling now. This year 2023 I have worked very hard to build this new version of myself that now writes and draws you. In 2024 I will limit myself to following this path that I started in 2021. In May 2021, at the beginning of the summer, I made the decision to change forever and, although you may think that it has taken time and it has been a long time, seeing what you achieve and striving every day in the long run makes the days go faster, the pain evaporates, you see the world differently, you see it as it is. You get to know yourself as you really are.

My present resolutions that I will take care of and continue to grow in 24 are 37, same age I’ll turn in 2024:

I ACCEPT MY LONELINESS AND BECOME STRONG IN IT.

I HAVE FALLEN IN LOVE AGAIN WITH MY WORK.

I COOK EVERY DAY.

TWO DAYS A WEEK I DEDICATE MYSELF TO DO THE SHOPPING AND TAKE CARE OF THE HOUSE.

I GO TO BED VERY EARLY AND GET UP VERY EARLY, WITH THE HOURS OF THE SUN.

I HAVE GIVEN UP COFFEE, ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO.

I DO SPORTS EVERY DAY, TRAINING OR SWIMMING POOL, DEPENDING ON THE DAY.

I GO TO GROUP TRAINING TWO DAYS A WEEK.

I GO OUT OF MY COMFORT ZONE WITHOUT FEAR OF IT HAPPENING.

I MEDITATE AND SEEK CALM IN EVERYTHING I DO.

I AM DISCIPLINED ABOUT MY WORK.

I AM STUDYING FRENCH.

I GO BACK TO DRAWING AND PAINTING FOR MYSELF.

I AM PRESENT IN THE PRESENT.

I TAKE CARE OF THE PEOPLE WHO REALLY LOVE ME AND CARE FOR ME.

I DON'T DEDICATE TIME TO PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT REALLY FOR ME. I STILL SEND THEM LIGHT, WARMTH AND LOVE. I HOPE YOU FIND WHAT I HAVE FOUND.

I LEAVE THEIR SPACE TO OTHERS AND I DON'T EXPECT ANYTHING IN RETURN, ONLY THAT THEY BE THEMSELVES.

I'M GOOD ON FINANCIALS.

I AM ELIMINATING ANY COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR. I AM SEEKING TRANQUILITY AND BALANCE.

I KEEP MY AGENDA UP TO DATE.

I HAVE RECOVERED MY LIFE PROJECT.

I HAVE MET SOMEONE WONDERFUL, IT'S ME.

EVERY MORNING I WRITE IN MY DIARY.

I DEDICATE TIME, LOVE AND CARE TO MARCEL.

I HAVE STARTED TRAVELING AGAIN.

I AM LOOKING FOR A NEW APARTMENT IN PARIS.

I AM WRITING MY NOVELS AND MY COMICS. I AM GIVING THEM THE TIME HE ASKS FOR.

I AM TAKING EVERYTHING OUT OF THE HOUSE THAT I DON'T NEED.

I AM GRATEFUL EVERY DAY FOR WHAT I HAVE, FOR EVERYTHING.

I MEDITATE ON LOVE SO THAT THERE IS NO MORE ROOM IN MY LIFE FOR EVERYTHING THAT IS NOT LOVE.

I HAVE ADAPTED MY LIFE TO THE MOON'S BIORHYTHM, EVERYTHING FLOWS BETTER.

I CONTINUE TO WORK EVERY DAY ON EVERYTHING I NEED TO IMPROVE.

I GO FOR MASSAGES AND I ALSO DO SELF-MASSAGES.

I HAVE REGAINED FRIENDSHIPS THAT WERE AND STILL ARE GOOD.

I HAVE REGAINED A SENSE OF HOPE FOR THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE.

I CULTIVATE PATIENCE.

SOMETIMES I STOP TIME.

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THE STORY

Anyone reading this will think that I live like a hippie and that I am like that, that I was already like that. Not at all, this is the result of several years, many mistakes and a few victories. In 2019 I had a catastrophic personal crisis (you can imagine how I "flowed" in 2020 and 2021. In May 2021 I decided to change, for the better, I decided I had enough of so much bad luck. Maybe a new life, maybe the same life but me being better in it, I did not know it then. Now everything is much better, although the truth is that I am still on the same path. That's the big key, to do the path: drawing, reading, writing, taking care of myself, being well, above all being well, is not the goal, it's the path itself. I've made mistakes, I've experimented, I've gone out of my comfort zone, I've had a bad time... and I'm still on the path. If you are going through a regular or bad time this article will comfort you. You are on the right track.

Resolutions are not separate capsules or goals to reach. We are never going to have it all done. Achieving resolutions and making them work is a lifestyle and, perhaps, it's a new you, a new me. But don't panic, it's a lot easier than it looks.

It all starts right now, with that first step you've already taken. Many steps start with a single step. I really want to write a book with all this, I think I will do it. I don't think so, I will. What do I say? I'm already writing it right now. It's as easy as that.