How was your Christmas holiday? Have you finished the turkey yet? As someone with enough turkey for one more salad/round of sandwiches, I have realised that my appetite for the bird has definitely outlasted my appetite for cards and decorations. I have just received and opened 2 more cards and am left to ponder, yet again, why we put ourselves through the misery and guilt of writing, sending and receiving Christmas cards. If we REALLY want to keep in touch with folk, shouldn’t we just do that? Does the Christmas card and “catch all” letter, disguise our social neglect of those to whom we were once close? It’s a thought, isn’t it?
Thank goodness that tomorrow is Bank Holiday Monday. It will be the perfect time to take down the decorations and trees, and ensure that all family members are around to put them away neatly. Fabulous!
So, 2012 is here whether we are ready for it, or not. Did you make any resolutions? Have you broken them as yet? Don’t worry, you still have time to make some more! Having looked back through my diary and reflected on 2011, I am ready for an exciting and positive 2012.
I hope that, as I intend to do, you will spend 2012 living rather than existing; that you will be unashamedly yourself and not be bullied or cowed into fitting into someone else’s definition of who or what you should be. Live and love well. Keep the faith and grow in wisdom and understanding every day. So that on January 1st, 2013 – come what may – you will know that you could not have tried harder. Happy 2012 and take care.
