HOPEWRITERS CHALLENGE 2021: DAY 1- "New Me"

As part of a personal challenge to myself to write better, I am joining Hope Writers Challenges!

This is Day 1's writing for instagram.

𝑰𝒏 2020 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒂 “𝒎𝒆”, 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒍𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒔. 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒏 𝒖𝒏𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅, 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒇𝒖𝒍, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏.

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒔𝒉𝒕𝒂𝒈 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓, #𝒅𝒐𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒅, 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒃𝒚 𝑮𝒐𝒅, 𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒐 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒕.

𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒔 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒇𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚. 𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒔. 𝑳𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒅, 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑𝒔 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒅.

𝑯𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒕 𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒅, 𝒖𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒅𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒐𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝑮𝒐𝒅 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆. 𝑰𝒏 𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔 𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒖𝒎𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒇𝒆𝒂𝒓.

𝑺𝒉𝒆’𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕. 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒋𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕’𝒔 𝒂𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆. 𝑾𝒉𝒐 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒅, 𝒈𝒖𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒓𝒅.
𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒐𝒃𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆.

𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 “𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒎𝒆” 𝒊𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔. 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒓𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒅𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒚. 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔.

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒓𝒅 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒐𝒄𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒅, 𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒛𝒆𝒅, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒗𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔. 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑯𝒊𝒎 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑮𝒐𝒅, 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒈𝒖𝒊𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕.

You can find more from this challenge HERE.