Genuinely Giancarlo

For me, the beginning of each new year is always about reflection. What did I do last year? What made me happy? Sad? What do I want to do again? But the most important question I always ask myself about a recently-finished year is this: What did I learn this year? Of course, it wouldn't be very beneficial for me to try and go through and review every single fact, detail, or new bit of information that I picked up during the span of the last twelve months. Instead, I try and go through the biggest lessons I learned over the year and how they can help me be better in the coming year. In this post, I am going to try and get out the most important things that the year 2016 taught me. Hope it makes sense. Lesson 1: The path you ultimately take is different than the one you think you will (and that's okay) If you asked me on January 1st, 2016, to tell you how I imagined 2016 would go, I probably would have told you something that's not even close to how the year...

I usually hesitate to assign "favorite" or "best" or "happiest" labels to thing in my life because I am always unsure if there is simply something better in my life that I have failed to consider. But here, I break that trend. Because here, I say something with absolutely no doubt in my mind: 2015 was the best year of my life. And there are probably a lot of reasons for that. Maybe it was due to all of the friends I made this year. Maybe it was because I really enjoy high school. Maybe it was all caused by the new-found responsibilities and privileges I took up this year. In reality, it was probably a lot of things. But here, I won't talk about general classifications of memories. In this post, I'm talking about the things that happened to me or the things that I did last year that made it so great. January January 1: I went to a fun New Year's Eve party to ring in 2015, and I had a blast. I was surrounded by friends and I made a coupl...