Happy New Year ! Happy New Year ! Happy New Year !
Since the beginning of the month, the beginning of the new year, my mind has been carried away to different kinds of thoughts closely related to 2009 and the former years.
One year has gone and one more year has come and every year, we behave the same. We send, present, express our best wishes to others and we surely expect them to do likewise. Who would deny that he or she does not feel good after receiving those wishes from others? During 2009, many people in our environment brought us some happiness and joy even with a single word or a simple smile. However, 2009 also brought to us those situations and people who really made our life miserable. And, unfortunately, our mind may focus more on those things and people who hurt our feelings.
As a natural human reaction, we said good bye to 2009 with pleasure when we thought about all those negativities. Also, as a natural human reaction, we embrace the new year with so much hope that we won't have to face any hardship anymore.... Here comes my point. Have we learned our lesson ???
I have come to understand that for us to make sure that a new year will bring us some happiness and joy, we must have learned our lesson. That is, those sad and frustrating situations and those people who played badly with our feelings were put on our way to help us improve ourselves. Wisdom is not an easy road; will we agree that wisdom is necessary in order for us to know true happiness?
Those negativities of the past can teach us to be more tolerant, to be more open, to be more patient, to forgive, and... to have self-control. If we learn to be the real masters of our reaction to situations and others' bad behavior toward us, for sure they will stop affecting our happiness. Then, we can rest assured that our best wishes wil get realized for the new year.
Now, I can tell you : "Happy New Year 2010 !"
