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As I write this it is now the 10th day of January 2009. I just came across a remark in a discussion group forum where they didn’t see the New Year’s Eve or Day as anything special and treated it as any other day. I have to admit I was a bit aghast at this. So many of my on-line friends have had, well, lets put it this way, a horrendous year in 2008. Many were caught up in the economic crunch, some lost jobs, had money problems, health problems, friends and family passing one. One of my on-line friends had one of those “disaster” years in 2008, when it seemed one thing was happening right after another, after another, like a snowball effect. Is it any wonder she was glad to see the year go. I know where she was coming from, as 2006, was my winner year, and breathed a sigh of relief when it came to an end.

To me the New Year is special. On January 1st of any year, one wakes up to 365 brand new days, days where one can start one’s life again…a brand new era of one’s life, a new journal of possibilities…to further set one’s goals that one wants to accomplish and perhaps make them more ironclad then the previous year. Despite the hardships many of my on-line friends may have had last year, and the hardships people in general may have had, 2008 was a relatively calm year for me, but then if I could survive what I went through in 2006, any year would seem mild and tame. I really do look forward to each New Year filled with bright new promise of moving my life in the direction I’m longing to follow. I look at each new year to accomplish the goals I may not have done in the previous year. Oh, yes, I look at each new year in a wonderfully positive way. Is New Year’s Day special? I most definitely think so.

©2008~Melanie Neer aka pyewacket

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