New year is here

2009 has come to an end.  And around this time, everyone is wishing, on tv, on radio, in the papers, for a happy new year. A new year always produce new hope and we all, hope for everything to be good and better.

Eventhough,  realistically, if we want things to change, first and foremost we must change. All the hoping and wishing  and wishing and hoping are never enough.   If we want a better life, we must be a better person first. If we are the same as yesterday, how can things be different tomorrow? It does not take a new  year to change you, neither it takes an old year to make you stay the same.  If we can change the hopes into efforts into achievements, then our wishes of good things have more chances to materialize. True or not true?

What do you plan for the new year? To be a better person, better mother, better career, look prettier, relax more, work less, improve our ibadat, spend less, exercise more? The list goes on.

My new year plan is to improve my vision. To see clearer. Use better lenses.

Sometimes things have evolved so much but we are still holding on to our past.  Everything evolve. Everything start, grow then grow old and die. Even the things and people around us.  Time to  look at what is left in your life, what has ended and what is still there.  Look at what we still like, what we don't like anymore, what we will never dislike. What is good, what is bad and what looks good but is bad, and what bad that became good. What is good but we never saw.

I want to look at what I can do and what, actually , I cannot do.Most importantly, what to hold on to, and what to let go.

I want the new year to be good, so I want only to pick the good and go from there, insyaAllah...and eventhough our new year had started on 1st of Muharram, but 2010 is a universal celebration as far as the world goes, so,  to those I love, happy new year 2010, don't forget to change the date....