December 5, 2024
This post is part of my 30in30 challenge, where I write 30 minutes every day for 30 working days. Due to my limited time for this challenge, the content will be only very lightly researched and edited. The idea is to just write. Find my voice, and find the courage to publish. To follow my curiosity wherever it may take me.
Do you use Spotify? Have you seen your Spotify Wrapped yet? If you're not familiar, Spotify Wrapped is a personalized recap of your listening habits over the past 12 months.
My Spotify Wrapped is hilariously skewed because my teenage daughter hijacks my account whenever we're in the car. Thanks to her, my top artists this year include Chase Atlantic and Conan Gray—not exactly my choice of music. I'm more of a Disco Funky Soul / Easy Rock girl according to my favourite playlists.
This got me thinking: what if there was a "My Year in Life Wrapped"? Not just a self-reflection on what I did or didn't do over the past year, but an account from someone else's perspective. How different would their version of my year be from mine?
Of course, relying on others to interpret my life probably isn't the healthiest idea. Still, an outside perspective would definitely help to, well, put things into perspective.
Highlight the wins I missed or overlooked.
Tone down the failures or near misses that still weigh heavily on my mind.
Remind me that it's okay not to always be at my best. That not every project will succeed, not every contract will be a good fit, not every conversation will be one to remember.
I am more than the sum of my actions. Much more than that. I forget that sometimes.
Spotify Wrapped gives you hard data—numbers that don't lie. But life doesn't work like that. Human existence isn't measured in tidy stats. It ebbs and flows through highs and lows. Life is messy.
And maybe that's the beauty of it.