As usual, the first day and month of the new year bring on a new bout of philosophizing. This is probably to avoid making firm New Year’s resolutions. When I do this, I feel like I am sitting on top of a high precipice and gazing down first at the old year we have just left, and then looking ahead to the new year set to unfurl. This is the time to learn from the mistakes of the past year and to try to eliminate them from the next twelve months. In order to do this one’s concentration must be honed to a fine edge and be able to weed out all irrelevancy. This provides a level playing field between the past year and the year to come. Here are my thoughts:
PAST YEAR
I believe that most of us have been living in a world that worships make-believe and by doing so avoids reality. This world tends to also avoid responsibility for its own actions. Someone else is always to blame. This world believes that we should be free to do whatever we please without consequences, and the inhabitants of this world don’t care who they hurt or who they cheat or who they best or who they beat. In this world we are all insular beings built on ego first and conscience last. I tend to feel the sting of the above, even if I am not totally involved. But, just reading a newspaper or watching any television news means that you are somewhat involved. Just thinking of this should make anyone want to forget the past year and move on. Hopefully to a much better place by not making the same mistakes over and over again. But we all deal with this day to day. It makes our lives difficult when they should be simple. This world wants us as new inhabitants, and we make decisions daily to avoid it… “if” we remain thinking individuals with a conscience. We can do this by re-booting or re-orienting our lives and thinking (deeply) on the first day and the first month of each new year. We also need to establish or re-establish our “Credo,” our basic beliefs at this time. Here are mine:
NEW YEAR
I believe that we are here on this earth to evolve, and that our sole purpose is to evolve.
I believe that we are here to make ourselves better, others better, and the world itself better.
I believe we are here to fix things, to cure and heal things, to discover things, and to discern the meanings of things.
I believe that furtherance is our task and “pushing the envelope” is our duty; growing is our need and drive; maturing is our destiny.
I believe that we have intelligence and logic and instinct; we have a choice between good and evil, and we have the means to know the difference.
I believe that our awareness (our soul, etc.), is meant to join with God when it is separated from our human body, and:
I believe that it is our job, even our mandate, to make all of this happen:
For: We are the human race. We come in all shapes, sizes, colors and temperaments, but we are all humans. And we need to start acting like it.
Let’s all have a Happy, Healthy, and Prosperous New Year!