a NEW year.

A year is the psychological marker delineating extended periods of time that have an intimate relevance in a single human lifetime.  At midnight tonight, in whatever geographically defined time zone you presently exist, the calendar year will reset and start anew.  Time will not stop to acknowledge this change-over…. the seconds will tick at a constant rate with no out-breath for the past or in-breath for the future… just a tick of a second, same as the second before, and same as the second to come after.

Yet… we pause, we reflect, we lament, we ponder, we project, we wish… we MIND.

what did I accomplish?  (stuff)

where did I go?  (places)

what did I do wrong?  (things)

who was born, what will they come to be?  (others)

who died, what did they accomplish, what did they mean to me, why did they die?  (others, stuff, things, I don’t know)

what was the best of the year?  (that thing)  the worst?  (that other thing)

what will the coming year bring?  (stuff, places, things, others, I don’t know, that thing, that other thing)

I hope that this will happen… I wish for that… I will accomplish x,y, and z.

(I am feeling very cynical at this moment.  I am going to step away and come back in little while…

… Ok, I am back)

I guess that I just feel a little lost right now.  I want to be present in this moment.  At the same time, I am compelled to be aware of the past and to be conscious of the possibilities of the future.

Maybe those are all the same thing…  maybe, I should be quite and listen.

…

Two things are coming to my mind at this moment:

  1. The quote from Goonies by the character Mikey: “Don’t you realize? The next time you see sky, it’ll be over another town. The next time you take a test, it’ll be in some other school. Our parents, they want the best of stuff for us. But right now, they got to do what’s right for them. Because it’s their time. Their time! Up there! Down here, it’s our time. It’s our time down here. That’s all over the second we ride up Troy’s bucket. .”
  2. The second one is my quote/thought/poem:  “I am the Lotus, You are the Sun, We are One.”

Thank you for being this past year, I wish us a wonderful new year. Michael