Say Hello, Wave Goodbye.
New Year's Eve is not my favorite holiday... We attach too much importance to the countdown, and who is with us, and where we are, and it just feels like a holiday saturated in superstition and anxiety. This measure of time is passing and another measure of time is to come, and I don't really feel the same emotions that other people do about December 31st.
It's another day for me.
I feel like it's taken too seriously. We take TIME too seriously. We take our numerical age too seriously. We become too structured by the hour on the clock. And although this structure is useful and necessary to maintain global regularity, I feel that it has come to govern too much of our mental space.
What are you going to change? What are you going to do differently, now that the seconds are ticking and we sense time slipping by? Meanwhile I think that changes and choices about our lives should be made all the time, not just at the end of the year.
Like, has anyone else experienced a kind of simmering panic at the New Year's countdown?
A sadness? A nostalgia? A wave of excitement stepping into a newborn January?
I used to, and now I don't care. I'd be cool sitting on a beach and letting that moment pass by without even realizing it.
5, 4, 3, 2, 1
New Year's Eve is not my favorite holiday... We attach too much importance to the countdown, and who is with us, and where we are, and it just feels like a holiday saturated in superstition and anxiety. This measure of time is passing and another measure of time is to come, and I don't really feel the same emotions that other people do about December 31st.
It's another day for me.
I feel like it's taken too seriously. We take TIME too seriously. We take our numerical age too seriously. We become too structured by the hour on the clock. And although this structure is useful and necessary to maintain global regularity, I feel that it has come to govern too much of our mental space.
What are you going to change? What are you going to do differently, now that the seconds are ticking and we sense time slipping by? Meanwhile I think that changes and choices about our lives should be made all the time, not just at the end of the year.
Like, has anyone else experienced a kind of simmering panic at the New Year's countdown?
A sadness? A nostalgia? A wave of excitement stepping into a newborn January?
I used to, and now I don't care. I'd be cool sitting on a beach and letting that moment pass by without even realizing it.
5, 4, 3, 2, 1
That being said, I will recognize the end of the calendar year, and I will go out and party my face off and run around with incredible people under the open sky.
And using December 31st as a marking point I'll look back on 2011 and share what I know.
In contrast to 2010, this year has been an absolute storm.
Now, erase that dark image of thunder and destruction, and imagine the chaotic awe of an interstellar cloud of dust - many good things and many bad things and many neutral things occurring quickly and slowly and some not occurring at all.
My life was filled with a multitude of changes that led me to the other side of the globe.
Once uprooted, now grounded.
It was a year of great spiritual advances and retreats.
I had found myself, lost myself, and found myself once more.
I became younger and older and now feel ageless.
There were times when I was so happy I felt like I didn't know what to with myself.
Then there were times when I watched my spirit disappear until I could no longer recognize myself.
It was like my saying "Burn to be Reborn", but it was happening at such a fast pace that the burning and rebirth blurred into a dizzying and exhausting thrill ride. And with that momentum, like a comet, I've been catapulted and liberated. Through it all I collected knowledge and wisdom.
2011, thank you.
There are no "New Year's Resolutions".
For me, the resolutions that work are the small daily ones, the baby-steps that lead to habits and patterns and a lifestyle fueled by growth.
And using December 31st as a marking point I'll look back on 2011 and share what I know.
In contrast to 2010, this year has been an absolute storm.
Now, erase that dark image of thunder and destruction, and imagine the chaotic awe of an interstellar cloud of dust - many good things and many bad things and many neutral things occurring quickly and slowly and some not occurring at all.
My life was filled with a multitude of changes that led me to the other side of the globe.
Once uprooted, now grounded.
It was a year of great spiritual advances and retreats.
I had found myself, lost myself, and found myself once more.
I became younger and older and now feel ageless.
There were times when I was so happy I felt like I didn't know what to with myself.
Then there were times when I watched my spirit disappear until I could no longer recognize myself.
It was like my saying "Burn to be Reborn", but it was happening at such a fast pace that the burning and rebirth blurred into a dizzying and exhausting thrill ride. And with that momentum, like a comet, I've been catapulted and liberated. Through it all I collected knowledge and wisdom.
2011, thank you.
There are no "New Year's Resolutions".
For me, the resolutions that work are the small daily ones, the baby-steps that lead to habits and patterns and a lifestyle fueled by growth.
Things are always looking or going up even if they don't seem that way at the time.
And I know this is what it will be like for you.
To infinity and beyond, Andy
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