01.01.09
Greetings, 2009
As I enter this new year I made no new year’s resolutions. I didn’t expect everything to be suddenly better or different in any way. I just look at the passage of time as one moment moving to the next moment. As each moment is lost we let go of what was (or what could have been) and embrace what is.
I think we, as a culture, spend too much time in anticipation of the good that will come and become completely oblivious to what is happening around us in the present. We are effectively squandering time in an attempt to get to that “someday soon”.
Nothing has become clearer to me as I live my life than this simple truth: now is all I have. There is no guarantee of a tomorrow. If I keep putting off those things that are really important I may never have the opportunity to get back to them.
So, more so than Happy New Year I want to say to everyone “carpe diem!”
