"If you look back to this moment, 10 years from now and find that your views and ideals have not changed at all, then you have not lived"

Christmas happens to be my favorite time of the year, but then after that comes something almost as spectacular. The New Year. Ahh the New Year, the New Year Party, and the countdown. It’s all done methodically; textbook some surgeon would say (I’ve really been watching too much Gray’s Anatomy) Some see it as a renewal of the soul, the cleansing of the evil done in the past-even if the past was 20 minutes ago. None of it matters, its a fresh start, a get-away free card.

I hate this ideology.

I don’t like the idea of a new start. I prefer the idea of a new opportunity. A new start is a new beginning; you lose the knowledge you acquired from the mistakes of your past. So in a new start, you tend to follow the same uneducated path. Sadly the fact is we never get new starts. No matter how forgiving, the stigmatic past always brings it’s little deformed head into the picture.

Don’t forget and try to undo your past.  We all make mistakes, some more severe than others and its because of that that we gain enough knowledge to understand that things could have gone a better way. Lets instead look towards the future in this new year. Lets stop being greedy and trying to act like you didn’t go over the calorie limit you put on yourself last year. Lets make New Year Resolutions with acknowledgement of our failures but most importantly with a new way to help us achieve those goals.  A way to do better than we did in 2011. Change something with a good thesis and backup evidence. Could be  maybe hiding the cheesecake since you learned from 2011 that your will power just isn’t enough. I don’t know, something.  Why? Because whats the point of a new you if you simply keep doing the same things the old you would have done?

Don’t be greedy. Be genuine, be optimistic, be humble, be hard-working! be pushed, be thrilled, be adventurous, be you, and most of all, be happy.

I hope you all have a wonderful 2012.

On a last note, I think I’m really gonna enjoy watching the movie”2012″ in 2013. Ha-ha.