New year, new day, new blah blah

The truth is, every day is a new year from 365 days ago (or 366, next year.) Every new day is an opportunity for a new life. And most days, this new start is wasted.

It's not really anyone's fault. Try as we might to start a new life, a new attitude, the old life hangs on. We are tangled up with our pasts, and they hold and are unwilling to let go.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing. There are things in our pasts we'd like to hold onto. Maybe even go back to. So in a way, it's only fair that even though we can't hold therm, they can, and do, hold us.

I hope this year will be better, for all of us. Too many people I know have had bad times this last year.
Most of them have had good friends  to help them get through.
If they had no past, they would not have had those friends.

So, as we vow our new beginnings, it's not enough to turn our backs to our past. We need to let our pasts 'have our back'.

Tomorrow started yesterday.

New Year; New Day

As everyone sinks into the revelry of the new year, let's remember that every day is a new day. Resolutions needn't be for the New Year only.
Every new day is a chance to start over, to learn from mistakes, to be not quite as stupid as we were yesterday.
We can learn, we can change, and we don't need any special reason to do these things.
We can wake each morning with the resolve to be a better person. To only speak kindly or not at all. To not have an extra dessert today. To hug our loved ones just because we can.

If we're lucky, we'll get to do it all again tomorrow. If we're not, we'll be leaving pleasant memories behind.

Today, this new day, I resolve to...