Racing dream

Chapter 2 - New year

- Sarah's POV -

2024. New year, a new beginning. Actually, an opportunity to start again, an excuse to make some changes in your lifestyle. It's true that every day is a new chance to change, even when it's something as simple as drinking a glass of water before breakfast or adding a new product to your skincare routine. But after you got to see fireworks, people shouted to the sky, cheering for a new year with their glasses up. It kind of gets a big deal.

New year, new me? Some crap like that always gets people's attention. "What do I want for this year? Do I have to change? Or is everything going great?" I mean, I know there's always room to improve, to be a bit better. Maybe I should be kinder to others, to myself, to my parents. Hundreds of things come to mind when I start to think, well more like over think, about changes I should do. Goals for this year, focus, and negative things to get rid of. 1st of January just seems like a good day to get my thoughts together.

My dad makes us write down negative things about the previous year, then in another piece of paper we'll write things we want to accomplish, last the good things we'll like to keep into the next year. When the new year arrives, we'll throw the papers in the flames that stayed on from the barbecue we had for dinner. It's our way to restart ourselves, to kind of clean our thoughts, and be ready for the changes that await us in the future.

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Since the family is little, just the 3 of us, the celebration is pretty simple. A good dinner, some music in the background, fireworks to welcome the 2024, and then, talking about what we wrote down on the papers we threw.

Mom's got: "Not get involved in ambients that don't feel welcoming, start thinking about retirement, enjoy more travels in family."

Dad's ones were simple as always: "Stop stressing so much about work, enjoy more family time, have a healthy life." This year, he actually added: "Get in touch with my best friend again." A new one that woke my curiosity up, he usually named his friend if he had some entertaining story to tell, but never really talk just about him. Sometimes, he would tell me that he actually is my godfather, so he'd be a bit sad that we don't get to meet or talk to each other. It would be easier if we didn't live in different continents or they actually got their friendship back.

My words to this new "beginning" were: "Be kinder to myself, learn and don't suffer from failure, enjoy the little moments." Pretty basic too, but also the things I struggle the most with. Why is it so difficult to be nice to yourself? What is really a failure? How can I stay in the moment and not overthink while doing it? Lots of questions, but not a lot of answers. Probably we never get most of them. We go through life just figuring some things out.

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Enough of deep thoughts, come back to reality, miss. To be honest, the only thing I want this year is to continue with the activities that bring me peace and happiness. Family time, sports, music. Basic shit for a basic girl. I'm 20 years old, and nothing really highlights me. I don't think that people feel attracted to me, like they don't feel the need to know me more. Maybe I'm just gonna watch movies, read, do some exercise, and get obsessed over something new for the rest of my life. It doesn't seem so bad, I won't bother anyone with that kind of lifestyle.

My latest obsession: cars and racing. Thanks to David, my dad, I grew up watching cars racing each other. Motorsports were always part of our lives. We even got to watch 2 times the start of the Dakar, here in Argentina. It's one of my favorite memories from the city. Then movies with cars on it are regularly playing at home, Cars or Fast and Furios are a must, my kind of comfort movies. To complete this passion, I started watching F1 some years ago. How did I spend so many years without something so cool? Anyway, I miss the races, I need the off-season to end soon so I can have something exciting back in my life. Just hope this year brings something cool with it.

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A/N

Hey!

I'm writing this at 1.30 a.m., so it's just a bunch of words put together lol. I hope it's not too messy or confusing to read. Just wanted to leave some hints to where the story can go and also how Sarah (our main character) thinks in general.

Hope you enjoy it ♡

Lots of love cuties 🤠

Cande :)