Who has made a New Years Resolution? Who thinks they will keep it? Who believes this year will herald something new for them? Who believes it is something that will happen TO them?
It's debatable that this is superstitious. Making a claim that someone will "change" or "make a commitment" just because the date has changed to a brand new year is, really, nonsense.
It is just another day. Nothing has changed. The world hasn't altered. It is exactly the same as it was on the 31st December. No miracle has occurred. It's the same morning as before.
People will have "wished" you a Happy New Year, with genuine sincerity, hoping the next 12 months are better and more prosperous than the last. With all due respect, good will and thanks, it is as if they expect a heavenly gift to be bestowed upon those they bless, and much happiness to be enjoyed by them they say it to.
Within a few days, those choruses of well wishes are but a faint echo in a cave. It is up to the individual to make the new year a success.
Almost every single person whom you receive a greeting from will say it as a standard, generic phrase. Many will hope that 2011 is a good, happy, successful and peaceful year, but do they think the gods will look down on you and grant you everything you want and wish for?
Some will. Those who believe in an almighty being who, if you give your life to it, will grant you happiness, in this life or the next.
Everyone can hope for some luck. Pray that something will come their way, whatever it may be. Is this a real, tangible entity we can hang our hats on and hope for the best? Or do we have to work for it?
Many people believe in fate. That everything happens for a reason, and there is someone for everybody and a path for every single person to follow.
What do you believe? That we have to fight and strive for every penny and every moment of happiness? Or that, somehow, the moons and stars align and the person you will spend the rest of your life with will emerge from the ether, and that your chance to be someone and have a career and fulfilled life will land in your lap.
Maybe sometimes it does happen. Maybe you have experienced it yourself or know someone that it has happened to. Life makes sense and everything is good.
It is an easy thing to believe in. That nothing takes any work, and what is meant to be is meant to be. A perfectly rational person will say this to you and in the next breath will tell you to belt up, pull your socks up, knuckle down and get on with it.
What is the truth? Which one is right? Is it both?
One assumes there is a plan for you, written by God or the stars or whoever. The other suggests you must make your own luck, create your own world, and discover your own happiness,
Can it be one and the other? Is it just all about your life experience and something you can be retrospectively happy or sad about. Joyous or angry.
Can anyone really answer that question? I doubt it. People more intelligent, articulate and worldly wise will agree or disagree with me and most will have worked hard and had a slice of luck along the way.
I hope you have all had a slice of luck.
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