Happy New Year!
The new year is already three days old and I don´t know where the time passed by. It´s running. Again! I just know that I was off work for three days, supposed to relax but kept being busy in a nice way: meeting and celebrating with friends I haven´t seen for quite a while. Friends from childhood, from studies, from abroad. We were exchanging memories, recent happenings and just enjoying time together as well as talking small about our pledges for the new year.
The New Year´s Pledge: Is it something you say you might want to do? Is it something you say because other people expect you to say anything? Is it just a tradition and you don´t believe in it anyway? Or is it something you really want to do because you believe in it?
Often people do pledges but don´t follow them strictly. They try for a while but then it is too hard to keep up with it. They forgot they wanted to and say they do it again the following year - at least they want to try.
But is this the way New Year´s Pledges are supposed to be made? In some way the intention is like a dream. You want to achieve something you dream about. Mostly like stop smoking, do more sports and so on. But what about your real dreams, the ones taking more than stop lighting a cigarette or hitting the fitness studio around the corner, the dreams that are not so easy to fulfill, the ones taking more time and energy to gain? Do you treat them the same way as your New Year´s Pledge? Stop after the first step because it seems too expensive to buy equipment, it takes too long time to arrive at that place, people start talking about you and your "silly" plans? Have you ever thought about trying another way, about doing a step backward and taking another direction? Why do you care about the others talking about you? It is your dream you want to fulfill, not theirs. They are just envious because they stopped following their dreams, they gave up long time ago and are not happy with their life. You should be different. Keep following your dreams, try to fulfill them even if it looks dangerous or will take a long time. When you fulfill your dreams you will become happier than ever before and know what you did for life.
"The way we spend our life, we exist, our environment, what we are doing every day, young Jack, all this is as we chose. Everything could be our reality - as far as we open our mind and recognize that it is as real and likewise a possibility as everything else." (Ma Ma Gombe)
