The Yearly Roundup
The New Year is pending so it’s the time for everyone to be posting their yearly roundups of what they’ve been up to - but is it really a roundup?
I always expect the yearly roundups to be honest but they’re all positive instead of reflective. You never see the best and worst bits of someone's year.
I see so many Instagram posts and LinkedIn posts about the results: “I’ve attended X number of events and handed in X number of assignments and received X amount of praise”.
Comments on how amazing 2023 has been, and I’m sure it has in many ways, but what about the negatives? What about the number of times you cried over that essay or were CONVINCED that you wouldn’t get through a hard time?
Yearly roundups should be inspirational but also realistic, reflective, because no one had the perfect year, and we shouldn’t pretend to have had one anyway.
It’s lovely to see that you travelled to Timbuktu because you saved up all year, but what about the issues you had in getting through the baggage area? Yes you may have got that job promotion, but why leave out the part where it took months of overtime and all-nighters to get there? Just because it doesn’t make your social media aesthetic like influencers or friends, it doesn’t mean it should be excluded from the yearly roundup. It enhances it, the worst bits make the best bits better because it made it worthwhile.
Yearly roundups should be reflective and that’s what I want to show. We’ve all had a mix of things happen and our roundups should mirror the journeys we’ve been through, good and bad, pretty and ugly, success and failure.
Was your yearly roundup reflective?
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