DAY 8: 2025 WRAPPED

Ever wondered whoever came up with the concept of a year. Like whose idea was it to segregate the days into years?

We could have just been living our lives everyday, getting older but without an accurate measure of how time is flying.

The concept of a year is a very wise one in my opinion; a good indicator of how fleeting time is.

Instead of dreading the passage of time and irreversible aging, why don't we take responsibility and make good use of it.

Why don't we learn from past mistakes and forge a better path with the remaining years.

From Spotify to Google photos, many apps recapped the year. Seeing Google photos do an end of year recap was a surprise because I didn't think I needed that.

It gave me a rundown of the number of photos I took this year, the major themes and a cute collage as a 2025 reminder.

Instagram, I noticed, has also introduced a weekly recap, one that I find completely unnecessary by the way.

During Spotify Wrapped season, we see people legitimately crash out at their own listening history. A literal report card showing the content you have been feeding on throughout the year. Swallowing the pill and taking positive action to be better is the best way to handle the situation.

Recapping a year some major expectations were not met is hard. It's one thing to keep your losses in your head, it's another thing to write them down knowing that anytime you flip those pages, you'll be reminded of what could have been.

Your mind can forget but the pages do not.

Not recapping feels safe and even healthy. But this is just you bottling up those feelings of rejection instead of laying them out and praying for healing.

Recapping a year that went well feels good. It spurs up gratitude and gives hope to dream again. You can recognize patterns you may not have noticed that led to your successes and replicate them.

Either way, recapping a year is a good use of time. Anyone who takes stock of their activities is a good steward of their time.

It's 28th now and there's no better time than now to do a recap if you haven't already. You can call it a dump, a dump of all your feelings, emotions, habits, experiences of 2025. And if any of them calls you to sit with it and probe a little further, please do not hesitate.

Were you a good steward of things God has blessed you with?

…Your relationships

….Your money

…Your time

…Your gifts

…Your projects

Not only do we discover our faults, we also learn intentional gratitude. “If you had a bad year, you can shift the focus from what didn't work to what didn't die” - Debola Deji-Kurunmi.

Introspective documented gratitude can be what changes your perspective of whether 2025 was a good or bad year. There's more to be thankful for than we realise. Like the hymnist said “count your blessings name the one by one and it will surprise you what the Lord has done”.

IF YOU HAD A BAD YEAR, YOU CAN SHIFT YOUR FOCUS FROM WHAT DIDN'T WORK TO WHAT DIDN'T DIE - DDK

We can only approach the future with optimism if we have made peace with the past.