As your wintry days wind down, I feel a sort of sadness that the best month of the year has almost come to a close, and an elation at the promises for the days beyond your reach.
For me, it’s definitely the start of a new year, as my birthday is the 31st. I feel like each birthday marks my chance to make a significant leap forward.
For 2009, I’m focusing on the best year ever. I am moving on to the second quarter of my life and it’s a new era of love, life and happiness. The first quarter of life, it seems, is a struggle to grow and find your place in the world – and your identity. It’s an age of gathering influence and trying to fit those pieces into a puzzle that is your Self. It is fun, but challenging. The growth and self discovery don’t end with 25, to be sure; the years after 25 are laden with more steps, more growth, more adventures.
In the first 25 years of my life, I learned much about growing and learning. I learned about love, and loss, and love anew. I learned how to carry myself, and carry my wallet. I learned how to overextend, and how to recover from over extension. I learned to covet, and to make sure that the things I coveted and procured would last. I marveled at the world, became wary of the world and learned to assert my place in that world, where I could still marvel, but read between the lines. I was a child, then became sovereign, then lost my place, then found it again. Through all of this, I feel I have become; not become me, because I have always been me, but I have simply become.
Tomorrow, one hour and eight minutes from the dawn of the new year, I am reborn, once more, as me. Doors will open, and I will follow the right path, because the right path, is the one I’ll follow, whatever that path may be. I will not question whether or not I am on the right path, because for me, there is no other path than the road I’ve chosen. It isn’t fate, it’s just how it is. No matter what happens, I will know that my place in life, and the lots handed to me are right, because they are mine to learn from. They are mine to live with. These events will benefit me, whether with knowledge, or truth, or with cold hard cash money (it could happen!). 2009 will benefit me as the year I, once again, pledge to love my self and my life; through these revelations, I can attain whatever I please.
I’m confident in this next year, because it is my year… the dawn of a new era which I am born into.
I will ring it in with glee, as I face what is next with wide-eyed ambition. December, I salute you as the dawn of a new era.
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