Happy New Year
I love the feeling that comes with a new year! I'm motivated to reform my life and be a better person. I love getting back into a routine after the holidays (even though my body is fighting me about getting up early again and exercising again and eating healthy again.) I like the feeling of starting a fresh year with so many adventures ahead of me!
My mom's cousin, Sherry Young, (who happens to be Steve Young's mom) writes for the Desert News and I have her column e-mailed to me. I love what she wrote about starting a new year:
When we moved from Connecticut over three years ago, we bought a home on a lovely tree-lined street. It appeared to us that everyone on the street must have a lovely life and we would live on a street of happiness forever. How naive was that?
About a month later, a young couple moved into a house around the corner. Busy with the process of moving in, they didn't notice their toddler had wandered after one of the workers and — in a tragic and heartbreaking moment — was run over by the truck and died.
In addition, several neighbors have had serious medical problems.
Life never comes with a happiness certificate.
A year ago the housing market was slowing, but who could know that the bottom would fall out or that the stock market would be a roller coaster ride that is making us all seasick?
This new year comes with great concerns.
Life is hitting some of us right in the solar plexus. It's as if in the past we were on a gaudy bender where we wanted more and bigger and better.
We spent and spent, and woke up to the reality of all things changed with new rules.
There are some positives becoming evident. Suddenly people are grateful if they have a job — maybe it isn't the perfect job, but they feel lucky to have it. And if they have a home, it is now very appreciated and they aren't wishing for more. It's called gratitude.
On the Channel 13 news a few weeks ago, there was a report about how 20 percent more people are going to the library with their families and borrowing books and DVDs instead of buying them, an indication they are rethinking the way they do things.
Uncertainty is making us wiser. We are all asking questions of ourselves, perhaps unthought of in the recent past. Questions such as: Do we really need that? What can we really afford? Is there a better way of using our resources?
It may sound simplistic facing all this uncertainty, but since it is a choice as to what each person doeswith his or her life, it seems that we may as well choose the positive road.
Robert Louis Stevenson once wrote, "There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
Happiness is contagious.
Perhaps that's a start to help lift this depression — work at being happy and think about what we can do for the world, even if it is our own little corner of the world.
There is no "street of happiness" because inside the closed doors, life happens, and it is our choice as to what we do with the good and the bad events.
Most of us are pluckier and more resourceful than we think we are. And we have a brand new year to work with.
An absolutely clean slate.
So here's to a clean slate! Happy New Year everyone.
My mom's cousin, Sherry Young, (who happens to be Steve Young's mom) writes for the Desert News and I have her column e-mailed to me. I love what she wrote about starting a new year:
When we moved from Connecticut over three years ago, we bought a home on a lovely tree-lined street. It appeared to us that everyone on the street must have a lovely life and we would live on a street of happiness forever. How naive was that?
About a month later, a young couple moved into a house around the corner. Busy with the process of moving in, they didn't notice their toddler had wandered after one of the workers and — in a tragic and heartbreaking moment — was run over by the truck and died.
In addition, several neighbors have had serious medical problems.
Life never comes with a happiness certificate.
A year ago the housing market was slowing, but who could know that the bottom would fall out or that the stock market would be a roller coaster ride that is making us all seasick?
This new year comes with great concerns.
Life is hitting some of us right in the solar plexus. It's as if in the past we were on a gaudy bender where we wanted more and bigger and better.
We spent and spent, and woke up to the reality of all things changed with new rules.
There are some positives becoming evident. Suddenly people are grateful if they have a job — maybe it isn't the perfect job, but they feel lucky to have it. And if they have a home, it is now very appreciated and they aren't wishing for more. It's called gratitude.
On the Channel 13 news a few weeks ago, there was a report about how 20 percent more people are going to the library with their families and borrowing books and DVDs instead of buying them, an indication they are rethinking the way they do things.
Uncertainty is making us wiser. We are all asking questions of ourselves, perhaps unthought of in the recent past. Questions such as: Do we really need that? What can we really afford? Is there a better way of using our resources?
It may sound simplistic facing all this uncertainty, but since it is a choice as to what each person doeswith his or her life, it seems that we may as well choose the positive road.
Robert Louis Stevenson once wrote, "There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
Happiness is contagious.
Perhaps that's a start to help lift this depression — work at being happy and think about what we can do for the world, even if it is our own little corner of the world.
There is no "street of happiness" because inside the closed doors, life happens, and it is our choice as to what we do with the good and the bad events.
Most of us are pluckier and more resourceful than we think we are. And we have a brand new year to work with.
An absolutely clean slate.
So here's to a clean slate! Happy New Year everyone.
Me too Lis-about the new year resolutions. I went to the complex this morning and it was more crowded that usual. I get a kick out of the older people who work out and then use the fat jiggler shaker belt machine. It's hilarious really. Well, anyhoo, I liked that column. I think I like being pluckier, as she said. Love ya!
ReplyDeleteHi Lisa! This is Katie Hurst (Shane's wife). We'd love to keep in touch with you guys..our blog is private, but if you email me at kbhurst79@yahoo.com I will send you an invite! It's so fun to see you and your sister's blogs!!
ReplyDeleteLove it! Such a good article. Happy New Year to you!
ReplyDeleteGreat article! It's true - there's been a kind of gloom lingering everywhere and I'm going to do my darndest to send it on its way (that is if I don't get sucked in first). Great thoughts for the new year.
ReplyDeleteAny ideas for another get together? (well, maybe after the snow settles down a bit) Dylan is dying to give you your present (it's no big deal, but he's super excited about it since it was pretty much his idea).