Friday, January 2, 2009

new year, new you? new me? old me?

So, the year has rolled over to a new digit. What exactly does this mean? It is really quite odd that the numeric change causes us all to contemplate our lives and question our direction, evaluate our personal goals. Be it our job, our health, our relationships, we spend the days to peruse it all. That is, unless we spend these days in a drunken party haze!

So, I find myself a bit beyond both of those approaches. I spent many years in a haze, well beyond ever having any desire to contemplate the direction my life was going. Then, I spent many years making big plans and dreaming big dreams on what that year was going to bring! Now, I am happy just to live my days as they come to me.

I have moved to a place where externally everything moves slower. A place internally where I am content.

I have hopes for life, hope for all of us. Hopes for peace and equality. Hopes for love. But I do not put it all in an annual basket of resolutions. Instead, I think we need to just move in our lives in a positive way, living in a way that creates a good path. Live with love.

1 comments:

Zed said...

I like the newness of the new year. It's really symbolic. At any rate I started my 'new year's resolutions' back in December to be sure I could do it.
You know, I too love to take it one day at a time, as it comes, "Life on Life's Terms..."
And I am enjoying doing it with grace and calm and dignity. Life's not so bad if you take the time to reshape your thinking in a way that benefits yourself and others, eh?
There truly is a silver lining in ever cloud, no matter how dark...that's what keeps me going.
It's nice talking to you on twitter (I'm wheeldog)
See you there.
zed