“It’s the most, most wonderful time of the year…”
New year is always the best. I love it how we all start the ticker tape fresh, all scoreboards resetted, enemies forgotten (cos you purposely omit them from your season’s greetings list). It’s just nice, when you get to start everything anew and on a clean slate. There’s just this fresh and crisp tinge in the air.
Spent my last couple of days in 2011 reflecting. I haven’t been reflecting a lot. I just realized how I stopped thinking in the last 3 months of 2011 and I hate it. Everyday is a mad rush, pre-empting and second-guessing. It’s horrible. Guess you know what is going on the resolutions list for 2012.
This year, I won’t do a stock take of the year, what went wrong and what went well. Instead, this year I will just focus on what I want and how I will get there. I won’t focus on what I can improve since this year I have decided that my life needs a radical revamp so that I won’t be stuck in the rut. I remember in 2011, in a post, I said stay tuned because 2011 is going to be a year of change.
Guess 2011 is the year of sparking Change, 2012 is going to be the year of making Change. This time, I won’t aspire to change the world. All I aspire to do is to change my life, change my destiny. I can’t change fate but I can change my destiny. Yes, I am still very (very) sore about many things. Yes it sucks. But I read this quote five minutes ago that just sums up what I should do from this point on: It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live (J K Rowling).
Watched Adele’s concert last night. As she explained the meaning behind Someone Like You, it hit me that somewhere, sometime everyone experiences pain somehow somewhat. (There are more sad people around than you can imagine!) The key is how each of us deal with pain. As I complain and whinge about how some people have it easier, I guess these pain toughened the spirit and stiffened the resolute. It’s hard (no one says it’s easy) but you have to realize the lessons yourself. No one will be there to teach you the lessons. You just got to figure it out yourself. The cookbook of life doesn’t exist.
We are masters of our own destiny. If someone tries to alter your destiny, make sure that person doesn’t get a chance. Stay on track, focused on the target and live life happy. You owe yourself your happiness. Hello 2012, let’s have the best together!
