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New Year’s Eve will soon be here, and with it a few hours of revelry, a split second of transition, and then a new year will begin.
Like a car driven off the sales lot, a new year can lose it’s value relatively fast. Perhaps the magic lasts for only a moment, maybe a couple of days, perhaps a few weeks at best…and then it becomes just another year.
New Year’s resolutions are a way to keep the magic of the new year alive. We make resolutions and plan to improve ourselves. We pledge to do more of this and less of that, eat more of these and less of those….and many of us pledge not to do a lot of certain things, and try and do more of other things.
A New Year’s resolution can often be an impetus for positive change – a resolution – a resolve to do better, be better. Unfortunately, like many things, the word resolution has lost some meaning, lost the impact that it might have had many years ago.
Resolutions should still be made: eat healthier, exercise more, stop smoking, read more, or study harder. These are things we may or may not accomplish, but too often they become victim to excuses.
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Today, in a global world of constant change and challenges, we need a New Year’s Revolution.
A revolution is more daring, more ambitious, in some ways more dangerous; it both consumes and feeds the heart & soul – it is a fight to the finish. A New Year’s Revolution leaves no room for failure, no room for excuses.
There is a New Year’s Revolution that is open to all, that offers guaranteed success, and is without a doubt revolutionary – and that is “to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love, is well done”.
Love can be a revolution.
It does not need to be all encompassing, it does not need to be religious, it does need to mean loving one’s enemies – it simply means to love more….
Love the morning sun a little bit more, love the night sky – just a little bit more. Love your children; love your wife; love your friends, your co-workers; love the person who pours your coffee; love the guy who fixes your car; love to sleep in peace and wake with joy; love the food you eat; love to dance, to walk, to sit; love music, love art, love yourself .
Love who you can, when you can – with a little more feeling, a little more appreciation, and know that from a succession of small things will come a revolution.
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