2017
New year, new resolutions, new dreams, new focuses.
Why is new so appealing and old something we all yearn to
forget, let go and sometimes even run away from?
Every night as we go to sleep, every Sunday ahead of the coming
week, every month end as we count the pennies left in our purse, every year end
on the 31st of December, we tend to look back and wish things had
been different, we feel we have aged yet another instant, and then we start
looking for all that is going wrong around us, and it seems like the world has
never seemed so impossible to bare.
So we look forward, we hope, we dream, we wish, we even gamble
on the lottery in that eternal hope that the universe will change things for
us. We close our eyes to reality and we hope. Hope is what keeps us going, hope
that things will improve, that we will feel fulfilled, that fairness will knock
on our door, that luck will strike, that love will swoop us away and we will,
finally, that famous one day, be happily ever after.
And we repeat these cycles year after year until one day it
is too late and we wish we were 17 again to relive our lives, but, of course,
with what we know today.
So here is my challenge for us in 2017, this beautiful year that
opens a nine year cycle of new beginnings: first of all embrace your past, every single moment of it. No regrets, only lessons learnt. Enjoy how you have mature, what you have learnt, the people you have met, those you have forgotten.
Then, no matter how trivial or difficult it
may seem, stop and look inside your heart, your soul, your mind. Stop and look
for the child in you and give him or her permission to dream again, to laugh
again, to wish again, to speak your truth again, to open your heart to love
again, to make new friendships based on a simple eye glimpse or a smile.
Stop and let go of what doesn’t serve you right, no matter
how uncomfortable that may be for you or for others. Stop your daily frenzy and
release your cupboards, your homes, your hearts, your minds, your lives from clutter. Things and people. Every
single day.
Be grateful for what you have, fight for what you believe
in, speak your truth, believe in something, go after that crasy dream, and
above all else, be genuine, be vulnerable, be deep, be true to yourself and be that
someone you would love to take out on a date. And take yourself out on a date.
Enjoy your own company. Be someone.
I wish you an authentic 2017, every single moment of it.
2 comments:
What beautiful words Manuela.. Life is to be enjoyed even if some time can be difficult. Think positif and see the positive side help out to follow the way of hapiness... As you well said " stop and let go [....] others" . One of my most important and eternel resolution : be surrounded by people who make you happy and ignore everything or everyone who make you think that you do not woth it...And never forget who you are, it is easy to get lost on the way of life...
I wish you great year 2017....
A beatifully written reminder of exactly what life is all about. Thank you Manuela such an inspirational reminder to celebrate how far we have travelled and to keep travelling through life, embracing all of the experiences and encounters we have along the way. May your year be as giving and fulfilling as your friendship is to me and many others.
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