New Year Resolution

It's that time of year again and each year it's the same tune playing over and over again like a scratched record.
- What is your New Year resolution this year?
- I don't have one.
- Well, maybe this year your resolution should be to make a New Year’s resolution!

New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. ~Mark Twain

A new year comes changing a digit to the existent one. We leave another behind us and with it we leave events, broken loves or friendships, mistakes, learned knowledge, general life history and what we sometimes all hope for, a few extra kg.

While some people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits, others see it as a blank page full of new opportunities. A time to make amends in our professional lives, personal lives and in the lives of others. A time to do what we haven't done the year before. A time to make up for past mistakes. A time to get closer to people we've drifted away from or let them go and start anew. A time to realize and try to find our strengths and our weaknesses and see what it is that makes us who we are.

We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives, not looking for flaws, but for potential.
A year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce

If there is one resolution I will be making, and try always to keep, it will be this: To rise above the little things…