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This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at USF chapter.

Every new year it is the same old thing. Make resolutions, keep them for a couple weeks and then discard because you realize you were trying to do too much too fast. Now I am not saying that resolutions are bad or that we shouldn’t have them. I think they work as great guidelines and motivators for the new year, but I think that sometimes a softer more generalized approach is warranted! Sometimes the year brings too much with it and easing into what we want is easier on us.

Usually I have a whole list of things I want to change and I try to motivate myself by saying, “This is going to be my year.” This year, it was a little different. Around November I started being attracted to butterflies. I have never been particularly obsessed with these beautiful creatures, just thought, “Oh they are pretty,” but this was different. I couldn’t really pinpoint my new obsession until my partner and I were talking in December about what we wanted for the new year and he used the word metamorphosis. This impacted me. As soon as I heard those words , I knew what I wanted for the new year. I knew I wanted metamorphosis for 2023. 

What is metamorphosis? Metamorphosis is defined as a change of the form or nature of a thing or person into a completely different one, by natural or supernatural means. When I say I want this for myself I don’t mean I want to completely change. I think I have worked hard on the person I am and continue to become and I am proud of her, but I also acknowledge that there are some changes that need to be made overall. For this year, I decided to not have a particular goal, just look at my goals as a whole. I want absolute change in the areas of my life where certain things do not serve me anymore and that’s okay. I think sometimes we get comfortable in a space and it is easy to reject change, but this year around, I am embracing it. I am embracing metamorphosis however fast or slow it may come, but I am going to enjoy every second of it.

Alondra is a bright, smiley, cow-loving student majoring in Psychology with a pre-med interest. She is also a pharmacy technician and hopes to one day become a doctor(not sure of what but def get her doctorates). On her day to day she is running from one place to another and leading several on campus organizations. Alondra tends to be a busy bee and also a social butterfly. When she's not busy you will find her in a hammock and hanging out with her friends. She is also a proud puertorican, a libra , a Halloween fanatic and a mom to a lovely American Staffy mix named Bella Rose