But, it is a new year on the calendar. 2008. The ball dropped in Times Square. A signal. An opportunity to start afresh. An opportunity to mentally let the crap of the past stay in the past, so be it.

I’m not a resolution grrl. I don’t believe in making promises, even to myself, that will probably be broken. Change doesn’t happen from a bunch of sentences scribbled in a journal, or printed on a blog, instantaneously just because I wrote it down. Change happens gracefully and slowly over time, usually unnoticed until something makes me think when did my thinking/reacting/opinion change? hmmm …

I like making promises about things that can actually happen. Things that, with the right thinking can actually manifest over the time in a year. My friend actually beat me to the post, similar to the one that I had intended to write this morning (but maybe that’s because she lives in a different time zone and is nine hours ahead of me). The intent is just to appreciate myself for who and what I am today, and let myself be for awhile. Let the world work on me a bit, rather than me work on myself.

So, for the New Year, I hope that everyone is either becoming the person they want to be, or just sitting back and letting the happiness in who they already are roll around the Universe.