As with most humans residing in the modern world, I imbibed in the crazed energy surrounding the various ceremonies where we say "Good-Bye" to one year and "Hello" to another. We feast off the excitement, the hope, the possibilities and the promise that this "NEW YEAR" may hold.
However, our JOYOUS SPIRIT was quickly drenched when a member of our group CYNICALLY CONFIRMED that 2011 was merely the NEW 2010, or in easier to understand terms, "THAT NOTHING REALLY CHANGES--SAME OLD SH*T, NEW YEAR." At that moment, the air around our table became stale. What were we all really thinking? While no one REALLY CHALLENGED our friend's statement, the quirky jab had done its job~It had cast a deep shadow on the promise and hope we all had REGARDING our possibility for CHANGE.
Well, as difficult as it may be to ask, IS 2011 THE NEW 2010? What actually changes with the entrance of a new year? Does our financial and/or marital and/or relational woes magically disappear and we're granted a clean slate? If we're unemployed, does a position somehow just open up at the stroke of midnight? No, of course not! What a new year represents to most of us who still have HOPE is that the universe is offering us mere mortals a NEW BEGINNING. Another chance to "GET IT RIGHT," a renewed opportunity to right wrongs. The change we seek and hope for RESIDES WITHIN US.
