It’s about new beginnings. Today is the first day of a new
year and the first day of the rest of my life (gag). In spite of the saccharine
nature of the latter part of that statement, I take a moment and wonder what
the New Year will bring. During the last month, many of my friends have
repeatedly said something like, “The new year has got be better. It can’t be
any worse than this last one.” Doesn't it seem we’ve been saying that for several New
Years?
While that’s a fairly negative stance on 2012, the sentiment
is borne out of many years of publicized and/or personally experienced economic
turmoil, joblessness, foreclosures, rollercoaster gas prices and general
uncertainty.
And we have a new president. Not a new, new president, but a
new term for President Obama. Hope springs eternal, in spite of the fiscal cliff fiasco! I promised myself, however,
I’d never talk politics per se in
this blog, so I divert away from any of that prickliness right now.
January 1 is similar to the first day of spring: it’s a
fresh start. To me, having a fresh start, be it big or small, is always a good
thing. It’s that moment when I take stock, about a single issue or about life
in general. (If I had a dollar for every Monday morning fresh start I
attempted!) In this way, fresh starts are a gift. They are always there giving
us hope and not slapping us in the face if we’re not entirely successful in incorporating
new and better things into our lives.
New beginnings are age blind and economically resistant, and
there are an unlimited number available to each and every one of us. What we do
with them is our choice.
