New Year's Resolution

They say New Year’s Day is every man’s birth. It’s a time where everyone tends to look back at there past and more importantly seek to improve their future. New year’s eve gives us the opportunity for a new beginning. It creates for us a favorable circumstance to reflect on the change we need in our lives as well as a good fortune that helps us make peace with ourselves before the others. As an optimistic, throughout my childhood and a few teenage years, I use to wait every New Year’s Eve until midnight to welcome the New Year with joy and faith. Faith to be a better year, blessed with welfare and mercy.

 Unfortunately, this year, I acted like a pessimist. I was counting down every second until midnight to watch 2011 finally leaving. To me, the second after midnight was exactly like the second when a policeman arrests a danger thief. Making sure that 2011 will never be back, I started stating how bad this year was or even how awful our country is just like a small kid annoying a locked dog knowing that he won’t be able to hurt him.

Basically, this New Year’s Eve was not more than a change of a calendar and not like every year a symbol of a better tomorrow. So obviously I didn’t came up with a New Year resolution. I felt that people took this calendar change as a reason to have a better tomorrow or a brighter future. Personally, I believe that we can have a better tomorrow every day. Life changing decisions are not meant for New Year’s only. Waiting for New Year’s to change is like a nonchalance student waiting for a new semester to start working just because his too lazy to begin immediately. But the thing is, if you keep postponing your decision, you’ll never get to do them.     

However, I took this assignment as an obligation to think of a New Year’s Resolution or maybe to reflect on a simple change I need in my life. Eventually, it’s obvious that my definition about New Year’s  was changed due to what happened in 2011.  So I decided to try to refresh my memory and remember my old definition about New Year’s Eve. Also, I determined myself to look at the bright side of 2011 and open my eyes on the great lessons taught by this unique year. As a result, I decided to start being thankful and grateful for what I have and have faith that every thing happens for a reason instead of whining and bragging all the time.