Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
What a wonderful world it could be
a re-print from “The Record”
Counting down the last few hours to New Year’s Day, when in fact every day can be considered a new beginning, seems odd. What is it with the New Year’s Eve ritual celebration anyway? Is it held in recognition of all that we have to be thankful for over the past year, a moment of nostalgia for the lost days, or simply an excuse to party?
As the last 12 months melt away we now aspire to be a little wiser, make New Year’s Eve resolutions and revitalize our will to succeed. But only after the clock strikes twelve on Dec 31st, it seems, are we able to move forward in a spirit of change. For now it’s still business as usual. Whew!
The thing with change is that it feels better when it comes naturally. Or does it? The environment has become the major issue of last year as a result of us gambling with Mother Earth, and if nature has its way we’ll lose more than the 250, 000 lives that perished in the Tsunami five years ago. According to the experts, we have to work harder at settling our accounts with the earth in the coming years if we want to ward off disaster. No slacking!
