ベスト・コーストのインスタグラム(best_coast) - 12月24日 05時37分

I debated whether or not I should do a long captioned, year end post or not because I’m always convinced people don’t read these - but then I decided it shouldn’t matter whether you read it or not, I need to do shit for myself. ⁣
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I spent so much of this year allowing the critic that lives inside my head to tell me I wasn’t doing enough, creating enough, sharing enough. It took me nearly 9 months to realize that just existing is indeed enough. The last decade of my life has been spent identifying as “Bethany from Best Coast” and to be honest, I thought I was past that - I thought I wrapped all that shit up in a nice little bow and sent it out into the world on Always Tomorrow, but this year reminded me we are never finished evolving and learning. We don’t graduate from growth, no matter how “together” we think we have it. I spent a large portion of this year trying to learn how to exist without an identification tag. It’s really difficult to simply exist when you place a lot of your value in something outside of yourself and the connection to that *thing* gets cut off by circumstances beyond your control. ⁣
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I keep forgetting all the very real and meaningful things I did this year, some were public, others private. I did more than just sit on my couch, which is the story the mean critic in my head likes to tell me. This year feels like 5 different years fused into one and at the same time feels like it lasted about 8 seconds long. ⁣
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The point of this long caption is just to say, this year didn’t suck as much as I think it did. I have so much to be grateful for and I was able to tend to parts of myself I didn’t even know needed attention. I am so blessed to have been able to experience this year the way that I did, I know many did not have that same choice. We collectively lived through SO MUCH this year, and even if we have nothing to “show for it” - we fucking existed and that is enough. ⁣
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Thank you from the bottom of my heart for supporting me and this band for as long as you have. I have no idea what the next year holds for any of us - but I have faith that it will roll out exactly as it is meant to. Happy Holidays, be safe. ❤️ BC

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