Bring in the Year

Merry Christmas everybody. I hope it is treating you well. The holidays bring people together and usually brings out the best in people. Lately this has been mostly true for me. Some incredible people have been in my life recently and they have turned my soul. I think now that most people are good, and sometimes they behave bad, but in everyone is good. I've learned many lessons in 2008, and I feel I am a much better, more rounded, understanding, and rational person. I have learned empathy, I have learned how to let things go no matter how harsh the consequences I have learned to accept fate and destiny. I think all things do happen for a reason, and I believe that life is round like out planet. Things rotate around and eventually come back full circle, a new sunrise perhaps. Sometimes they return in different packages, and sometimes just the same as you left it but now refreshed, polished, strong and smiling. I have been to some great water this year with just a hand full of people. I have snowboarded with great friends and some great 6 month winter friends. I have drank some great wine, and through 2008 I have had some great times. I have spent time with family. I have opened new windows and doors that have been shut for a very long time.
Though, like any year in any one's life I have had my struggles. Yet, I don't feel downed by my struggles, I feel empowered. I feel the time of change and revelation. I feel stronger and more focused. I feel I learned in 2008 how to attack my struggles, to face them head on and make the changes that need to be made. Old things can be fixed, changed, and reinvented. I invite you to reflect back on 2008 and recall your best and worst times and enjoy them, look for the lesson or lessons you learned from your experiences and ask yourself what you gained and learned from those experiences and continue to apply them to today, and tomorrow. Hope 2008 was great for you and 2009 even better. Make some resolutions you really want and make them happen. I know I have mine :-).

-Merry Christmas and Happy New Year