I always welcome a new year, and I am happy that our calendars now show 2010!
Like many people, I sometimes feel that time passes much too quickly, so it is not that I am celebrating that aspect of it. I appreciate each and every day, and try to make the most of each and every one because none of us have a guarantee of another.
Someone once asked why I always tell my son that I love him when I talk to him on the phone, or when I am leaving to go someplace. My question was, “why not?” I try to always let my loved ones know what they mean to me as often as possible, and each day is new opportunity to do that.
There is an old wives’ tale that the first three days of the New Year forecast the first three months of the year. I have to laugh at that one! New Year’s Day here was very mild, so one would think the whole month should be, too. Wrong! There have been several days of zero temperatures or below. So, weather forecasting is also not why I am glad to see the New Year.
I am neither into the numerology nor the superstitious beliefs surrounding the New Year, either. And, by the way, I do not believe that the world will end in 2012. I am glad to get that one out of the way, early on! Laughs!
It is really quite simple- I welcome the New Year because of the 12 months of new opportunities that stretch out before me. I am a very visual person, and seeing those new calendar pages remind me that anything is possible on those blank pages.
The squares marking each day are also blank other than the occasional pre-printed holidays. How exciting to anticipate what the New Year will bring to fill those squares! There will be many happy events that occur this year, and most likely the unavoidable sad events, too. The year 2010 will be its own unique story.
Each of us can embrace the New Year – and each day and month in it- to make the most of those new opportunities- live and love life to its fullest.
And, of course- write to the fullest!
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