New Year

Welcome 2012- A blessed and peaceful year to everyone of us. New Year's Day is the closest thing to being the world's only truly global public holiday, often celebrated with fireworks at the stroke of midnight as the new year starts. January 1 on the Julian calendar currently corresponds to January 14 on the Gregorian calendar, and it is on that date that followers of some of the Eastern Orthodox churches celebrate the New Year.


If you're like most people, you've probably experienced the sudden burst of motivation that comes in early January, as holiday indulgences make their way to the waistline and New Year's resolutions force a new look at the figure we see in the mirror. "This is the year," so the resolution goes, "that I vow to lose ten pounds and keep it off." Other common variations include goals to get back to one's "true" weight, to fit into a size ten, etc.  And worthy resolutions they are. Sadly, New Year's resolutions are notoriously short-lived, if not completely forgotten by February or even on the next day- the day after January 1.

Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits. A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. Few of you might agree with this or mostly believe in this. Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.


Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights. But I always hope and believe that every man should be born again on the first day of January.  Start with a fresh page.  Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.

Therefore, I may say that the only way to spend New Year- the next celebration is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears. It may be you or me- or people around you.


"Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right." - Oprah W. said...I agreed and said " We will open another 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."


Enjoy this year's journey!!!