Good Bye 2025! Some reflections of 2025 and new hopes for 2026

As I start writing this blog on New Years Eve, I realise that some years ago I would never imagine myself blogging on New Years Eve. I must be getting old! But it is as fun just to relax at home in the company of people who care about you like it is to be out there amongst strangers.

This past year as been a year of beginning and endings, of intense anxiety and immense reward. My personal life has been a bit quiet and fairly lonely. My partner V who lives with me ads some love and excitement in my life, as well as appreciated emotional support and nurturing in making me a better woman. I hope to socialise more and be involved in more activities in 2026.

I have been unfairly retrenched from a toxic job at an accounting firm in the Durbanville area at the end of May. I just went along with it as I no longer wanted to subject myself to mental abuse and covert racism. Soon after that my coloured colleague who has a different job there, was retrenched the same way I was, however she was replaced by a new person. Does not make sense but ok she also was happy to leave, as she could no longer deal with the abuse. My partner then at the same time got a big project and could cover our rent for a few months. I withdrew from the UIF and applied for jobs every day. 

I had to make a decision. I had to decide whether I will work in Century City 25km away from home for a better work environment away from the 'boerewors gordyn' and face more stuck up colleagues in that environment, or stay behind the 'boerewors gordyn' and experience emotional abuse and racism but be closer to home and spend less time on the road. I decided to choose Century City and guess what, the Universe/God gave me exactly what I wanted, a senior job at a smaller but successful and growing accounting firm with a much better culture where people of colour are less oppressed. I got this job exactly a month later, so I was only unemployed for one month. The coloured colleagues at the new job are more free to be themselves but still seem to feel inferior to the white people, while feeling superior to blacks and Khoi, as is the social norm in Cape Town. But overall the culture is much better, with a mix of good and evil personalities and those in between. 

I finally have a wonderful manager, though she has her flaws, she is friendly, open and supportive. I finally have a manager and workplace that will support me with studies and give continuous training, after 20 years of being a bookkeeper. For this I am grateful and I hope the year ahead will even be better, though I have decided not to study this year. I have already received wonderful feedback from clients for my service to the senior staff who shared that good feedback with me. And I received a certificate of recognition with some wonderful words of praise on it, though everyone got a certificate of recognition. 

I have had some trouble with my health but with the support of my mother and making full use of my medical aid benefits, and further investing in my health, I have gotten much healthier and still on a journey to improve and optimise my health, as health is actually the normal and natural state of being for a human being. In nature, we are not meant to be ill but are supposed to be healthy generally and use natural medicines for healing. Much of today's pharmaceutical medications are based on natural ingredients or knowledge. 

So 2025 has been a year of beginnings and endings, and one of miracles of which I can only attribute to a higher power. It was a year of change and challenges on the way I view the world and other people. It has been a year of the beginning of loving myself and my loved ones better, and the beginning of creating balance in my life. 

As my seniors at work and my boyfriend has said repeatedly, 2026 will be a good year of growth and prosperity. Cyril Ramaphosa gave me the hope that I needed when he did not back down when Trump bullied him and our country. I was shown that not all white people are racist or at least extremely racist when many white people criticised Trump and those Afrikaaners who went to the US as refugees from a country in which in reality they live in luxury and privilege.

After resting during my holidays I feel much better and am preparing to take on the new year with new vision of balance and well-being. I hope the new year will be the year you want it to be and may the world experience more love and positivity than hate and division. Hands up for 2026, the world and all the good people who want to see goodness reign over evil and darkness and who will strive for that in their own way. Non-alcoholic cheers to you and your loved ones for 2026!