New Year's Resolution

The one, the many, the broken, New Years Resolution.

Why do we constantly feel the need to judge our past, control our present, and determine our future? Why do we feel that we need a proclamation to make a difference in our lives... to change for a better future...and why do we feel that we need a determined and definite new year for change? Why can't every morning, every minute, and every second we live be an opportunity for the difference that we feel necessary at that very moment. We make resolutions forseeing our future... and in that we set ourselves up to be let down, to fall off the wagon... to fail. We also justify our fear of change as we provide ourselves opportunities to wait... we can change tomorrow, change next year, or change the year after... because one thing or another was not on our list of resolutions...

And what do these resolutions really provide? A list, a guideline, a roadmap for how we hope our future will turn out? Sure, we think they will help to keep our lives on track, but the quesiton we should really be asking is what track are we being kept on? We follow these resolutions based on how we wanted to be on the first of the year... but two months down the line... how can we say that that want or that need is the same? And if that has changed, can that not be accepted as growth and development instead of a failed resolution?

Everyone looks at the new year as an opportunity to start over... to drop the mistakes and regrets of the past... to begin a new life. What I would beg, however, is that every person treat every day with that same optimism. The new year is not the only moment or opportunity for us to take control of our lives... instead, every moment that we live breathing is a new opportunity for us to live... one that should be noticed, recognized, and taken advantage of. So often we live feeling hopeless and lost in what we do and where we have ended up... waiting for that moment to begin a new... but in that waiting, the only thing we lose is time... is life itself.

Stop looking for roadmaps, signs, lights, arrows, and directions in life. Stop comparing the present to the past in order to determine your future. Start living for today in knowing that the moment that you feel most lost may be the moment that you are most present.. Stop fearing life in fear of losing direction... because if you take each moment as it comes, you can do nothing but live and keep pushing forward... and you're not lost until you stop moving.