grace_and_june | how to be kind? what does it matter to be a decent person?

I used to keep the habit of making year-end reflection posts about 5 years ago but as of late the years have seemed to have smooshed and blurred into one another, so here's one for the pack of 10 years since I left pre-university and jumped straight into the rest of the world.

Overall it seems that the overarching themes of my life this decade generally have to do with interfacing with the social world and finding my own path/way through it:

How to be a decent person in circumstances where it is complicated and unclear as to what this means.
How to love someone when it is not necessarily clear as to what this means.
Inhaling and exhaling things that instill a baseline level of good moral standards around me, especially when there are people involved.
Being a kind person is very complicated thing to pursue. Let people languish in ignorance? Be cruel to be kind? Things like that.

Overall I've been busy:

Learning that good relationships involve trust, communication, and respect.
Fighting for the right direction when it comes to a career path and making a boatload of mistakes.

It's been a good run, I think, considering how much there was to take on in terms of growth and development. Looking back, I think haven't done too badly, if badly at all.