The New Year

     So we've made it to the new year: 2012. The world is supposedly ending, every is looking at the economy with a "glass half full" attitude, and of course we all have our new year's resolutions. But I have to ask, what is so different about a new year than any other time? Why should we treat it any differently than other times during the year? My point being that it seems as though we make resolutions to be better people and have better attitudes which really only last for the first week of January. After that, we continue on how we were before and think to ourselves, "I'll try again next year." Why is it that we cannot think of every day to be like the new year. It is a new day, and there are new opportunities every single day we wake up to embrace them.
      I believe it is time that we stop celebrating the new year with resolutions, and instead try to embrace every single day with goals in mind. Can you imagine getting to the end of 2012 reflecting on how much you have accomplished instead of how much you let pass you by waiting for a new chance in 2013? Don't fret if you've made resolutions and haven't quite done the best job so far to follow them, thinking you have to wait for another chance. Instead, make it a point to think about them every single day, even when you aren't following them. Continue to remind yourself of what you want to do and what you want to become.

"The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can."

Robert Cushing