A New Year

Hi blog! Long time, no talk! Today is Tuesday, January 1, which means that 2012 is OVER, and 2013 has now begun. So I'm going to talk to you about the things that annoyed me about 2012, but there's a lesson to be learned as well.

To me, New Years is a fantastic holiday. It started out as something small, (it was simply to mark a new year) but it's developed his own meaning after a while that's important. On New Years, everyone's positive. Everyone has their resolutions in place, and is ready for a new year, a fresh beginning. Some reflect on the year before, and some try to completely look ahead. It's a great holiday because everyone's ready to begin a new life, not dwell on the past. I think this shouldn't be an emotion we purely feel once a year, but all the time. Every single day is another opportunity to make a change in your life. You shouldn't have to wait 365 days to make that choice. Because that's all a year is. Another 365 (give or take) days. The number isn't significant, nothing happened on that day. That's just all the days in the months added together. Before we had twelve months, a year was less than 365. Someone, somewhere decided on the number of days in a month and months in a year. If we were to add 10 more days to March, then the number would be 375. I might be confusing you, but I'm basically trying to say that you don't have to decide to change your life only every 365 days. That's just a number, something random. That number can change at any time, when someone decides to add, or take out days of the year. You can make a change in your life on any day.

One of the most irritating things to hear is, "I hope 2013 is good!" "2013 better be exciting." "2012 sucked. 2013 has to be better." "2013, please be good to me!" EVERY year, people say that. And guess what? Every year, those people are let down. Because guess what? Nothing is EVER going to go completely your way for the rest of your life. Ever. People are gonna hurt you, you're gonna make bad choices. The next year can't be filled with rainbows and sunshine just because you asked it to on December 31. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, people think that happiness is when they get what they want. It's not. Happiness isn't what happened, it's how you look at what happened. Whether you choose to dwell on it, or accept what you can't change and move forward. I will be the first to tell you that 2013 is NOT going to 100% go your way. There will be ups, and plenty of downs, for everyone. You just have to look at it the right way.

2013 will be a good year if you make it a good year. When you decide to take control, not wait for the world to do it for you. Accept what you can't change, fix what you can, cherish every moment, and enjoy every day. Let's make 2013 the best one yet, starting today.

Tomorrow comes.