We are officially well into 2011, but looking at the transition into this new year got me thinking. Why do we have to wait for a new year to start our lives anew? Sure, New Year's Eve is a great reason to get together with family and friends and shake it, but why do people insist on throwing out the old year and all that it brought and trying to jumpstart something new?
We've all made new year's resolutions...most of which never seem to amount to anything. Thinking about the possibility of creating a new resolution this year made me really contemplate the point of such resolutions. I have shocking news for everybody, January 1st doesn't change our lives, all it does is make us write a new two digit year when filling out paperwork - or signing checks, but I haven't done the latter for years. If you want to make a change in your life, do it for you, not for January 1st.
Too many of my friends and family made comments this December 31st about how awful 2010 was and how 2011 couldn't arrive faster. These types of comments are really quite sad. Why is it that people can't realize that another year in these earthly bodies we call home should be a blessing, rather than something to throw out and forget like trash. I'm not saying everything in 2010 was so miraculous for me that light shone down from the heavens and angels sang, however, there are always great things in life - the silver lining if you will.
I wish more people could live in the now a little more, not dwell on the past as much, learn from mistakes, work on bettering themselves year 'round, and realize that January 1st was just another Saturday, not some magical life-changing day because it ended with -11 rather than -10.
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