A New Year

The delightful freedom of a new year; a clean slate, a fresh start. Isn't funny how a new calendar can inspire change, and the sense of potential and promise to achieve it? Why can't we see that each new moment holds this same powerful potential. Nothing is stagnant and nothing is fixed. We can turn our entire world on its axis in this new moment; that said, we can also have our entire world turned on its axis without our consent. But the idea that only once a year do we get this new beginning is such a waste and lost appreciation for the newness of every new moment.

My New Year's resolution is to remember this feeling of freedom, this clean slate and this fresh start. To choose to live each moment, embracing its potential and allowing it to embrace me. Choosing not to see the world as stagnant and solid but flowing and changing and alive.

The only reason changes in our lives cause us stress or upheaval is that we refuse to acknowledge the constant and inevitable change that surrounds and envelops us each and every day. If we could embrace and even celebrate the constant flow of life rather than fighting against it, unforeseen changes would fail to disrupt that which is in a constant state of change.

I'm not much of a surfer but perhaps I can float with the waves of ever changing life rather than paddling so vigorously against them. Here's to a flowing, evolving and delightful fresh start, in this moment and every moment of 2013.