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New Year, New…??
Resolutions, actions, or no change — do you do anything special to greet the new year?
Welcome to 2021.
For everyone I know, 2020 was a tumultuous, distressing, disturbing, unusual year. It’s passing has been marked not by raucous celebration but by at-home isolation (since we are still in the middle of an out-of-control pandemic).
Unfortunately, the change in the year is artificial. The Gregorian calendar most of the world has been using for over 400 years has still seen shifts in when the “new year” began. Yet in our lifetimes, it’s always been January 1.
Still, life moves in cycles, so artificial or not — here we are at the beginning of a new one. For some people, this is where they choose new practices to begin. Or at least, the idea of new practices. For some, they have lots of ideas but no incentive nor gumption to act. And for still others, the new year is just another year. Same shit, different day — oh, and different year, too.
Like everything else in life, you have a choice. Make something of the new year — or don’t. Given the insanity and uncertain of the past nine months, I think it behooves us to analyze where we have been, where we are, and where we might desire to go.
For many people, this is not fun. It’s uncomfortable because looking inside yourself is disconcerting. But…
