“Let our New Year’s resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.” - Goran Persson
This coming Wednesday we will be saying goodbye to 2024 and welcoming in 2025. Another 365 days have passed; we have aged another year and hopefully have grown wiser from our experiences. We have managed through another year, met new challenges, made new acquaintances and possibly have lost people dear to us. C.S Lewis asks us to consider the following question; “Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.” When we look at our life on a day to day basis, we hardly notice the changes that are taking place to us and to those who interact with us. New Year’s 2024 is probably the one time during the past year that we will take a minute to look back, not only on the past year, but on the experiences that impacted us during the last 365 days.
I have always believed that we are the sum total of all of our life experiences; good or bad, these life experiences have contributed to who we are today. While we are impacted by these changes, we do have a choices in the path that we take into the future year. I believe that Alex Morritt states it well when he states, “New year, new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story. Ultimately, we write it, the choice is ours.”
As 2024 comes to a close, let’s give some thought to those thing we can truly impact; actions that will not only better serve our needs, but the needs of those around us so that next December 31, we can look back on our year, see how we have changed, and feel proud that we might have possibly touched a life in a positive way. Happy New Year!
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