end of the world, new perspective

 

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.” – Seneca

It’s barely days before the year ends and here comes end of the world.

Yeah right.

It’s few days to go before we actually welcome the supposedly chaotic year. As foretold, hundreds of disaster would even out the earth and empty it off of people. Earthquakes will shatter the globe to dust and air. People will die of hunger and thirst. It will be judgment day. No one will be spared. You and I will be erased from the face of the planet.

Welcome 2012! Fireworks!

But aside from what has been said about the coming year, what else should we actually look forward to?

According to the Chinese Zodiac, 2012 is the year of the Dragon under the element Water which begins on January 23, 2012 and ends on February 9, 2013.

The Dragon is the fifth sign of the Chinese Zodiac, a creature of myth and legend. In ancient China, the celestial Dragon represents an emperor and power. In the modern milieu, it signifies success and happiness. (http://www.stanssewingsupplies.com/catalogs/store.asp?pid=254835 )

See? What’s there to worry about? If the Chinese who is literally the dragon in terms of economy for the biggest part of history thinks 2012 will be a year of success, the only thing that we should be thinking of is how make our own success. Embrace the year of the dragon.

 

Cliché. We make our own destiny – weave our own webs.

Every time a new year starts, most of us become lunatic about how we should face the next 365 ¼ days.

Weird. We get new haircuts, buy new things. And a lot of people still make their new year’s resolutions – only to break them soon enough.

We think the thin gap between December 31^st and January 1^st (on the same hour that Cinderella’s fate changed) will make us a new person with a new perspective.

But we may not even need a new year to be better. Every day is a chance.

That’s why I never dare tried to make any new year’s resolutions (spare composition writing, when you are obliged to do so) because I don’t think they are necessary. And I’m not good at fulfilling promises anyway.

It is enough that you live each day anew, contemplating on what the day has made out of you, and bring that to the next day that will wake you up. That makes the cycle.

After all, New Year is just another day, a measure of time although you change the page of the calendar, or change the whole of it. You still wake up on the same bed and celebrate every sunrise with the same people you wake up with.

But have a happy new year still!