H A P P Y N E W Y E A R | S A L T Y W A L K S

Hi Everyone,

Can you believe it? Twenty Sixteen has finally arrived!

2015 seemed to have flown by, yet still so much has happened that I can't wrap my head around it all.

Every year on the first day of it all, I ask myself these three questions, and this year I decided to answer them with you.

However I've decided to add in a couple extra ones so you can answer them as well and get yourself ready for 2016.

Number One; What is your greatest achievement of the year that has just passed?

To be honest, normally I wouldn't have a real answer, it would be something completely stupid, but this year it would definitely be starting up my YouTube channel and successfully completing Outward Bound. 

Both these things are so different, but I am proud of them in the same kind of way. 

Number Two; Is there anyone who you need to distance yourself to ensure that you can be the best version of you in the following year to come?

I feel as though this question is very personal, but something that we all need to evaluate. I know that this is the only time that I am really ready to say goodbye to the people who were just toying with me throughout the year before.

This is definitely one of the most important questions however the scariest. (For me at least.)

Number Three; Are you ready to adapt to the new things that will soon be thrown at you? 

Yes, this is a question!

Now, these questions I want you to answer, because for me personally starting the New Year is always a bit depressing, but I know for a lot of other people it is exciting and nerve wrecking, so these questions are here just to keep you on track. :)

• Are you ready for change?
• Are you willing to meet new people?
• Are you ready for your surroundings to change?
• Will you be prepared for anything that comes your way?
• How will you react to obstacles? 
• How are you feeling right now about the New Year? 
• Are you excited? 
• Who is someone you know will be there for you next year?
• Who is someone you are finally ready to let go of next year?

Alright, that's all from me! 

I hope you all have a wonderful 2016, even if 2015 was absolute crap!

The New Year may seem like an illusion, but it really is a fresh start. So Bye!

Until Next Time, 

Stay Lovely, Vanessa. 

M I S S E D C H A N C E | S A L T Y W A L K S

Hi Everyone, 

One day your going to meet someone so special you'll forget life before them.

You will slowly start to love that person without you even knowing it, and honestly that is the best way to fall in love.

One day they are going to return the feelings, maybe not in the same way, but they WILL love you too.

And then when they tell you, you will freak out. You will either let a smile take over you face, and laugh as they embrace you, or you will be filled with fear.

The fear that they might disappear. That eventually they might leave you, so you sit there, expressionless, even though in the inside you are killing yourself, begging yourself to say something, tell them that you like them too.

But they don't understand the love you have for them, and they will feel rejected. They will slowly become distant, the jokes aren't the same and time you spend together doesn't feel the same, all because you didn't have the courage to speak out.

Eventually you will both be in different classes, and the only time you say 'hi' is when you pass each other in the hallways or when you miss him.

Three years later, when you don't talk any more, he won't understand that you still love him.

He doesn't understand that you miss him so much it physically hurts. He won't understand that you regret everyday that you didn't tell him. Because now you really have lost him.

You will slowly become only a distant memory to him, and you will tell your friends that you have a crush on him, and they won't understand why because they don't know what happened between you two.

You will be in the same class, and never speak because you refuse to acknowledge the past. 

Every time you see him, you wish that he would knew what you are thinking, because if he did he would feel so loved that he would forget about time you spent apart.

He will suddenly remember you again.

But that rarely happens, because you missed your chance.

Everyday you regret not saying the words, 'I like you too.'

The time you spend alone, you wish he was there, and that's how you know you messed up.

- VA -

|This was just a story that I wrote, part of it fictional, some of it real, but I wanted to upload it on my blog and not Wattpad or anything because the chance of someone I know reading my blog is One in a Million.|

Until Next Time, 

Stay Lovely, Vanessa.