NEW YEARS LEAVE

It’s time to try leave it all behind, isn’t it?

Leave the angst and the turmoil.

The divisiveness.

Shed the ambivalence and the apathy. 

Time to find our empathy again. 

Work to find happiness in the same life thats burdened and harangued us this year. 

Get reacquainted with joy. 

Laugh again and often. 

Find some love. Some simple, pure neglected love that never asked to be ignored or turned away from. But we did. 

Time to let compassion replace our complacency. 

Let open eyes that we allowed to go blind regain their vision and perspective. 

And most importantly, let’s see it all with some sobering realism. 

I’m not idyllic.  I’m far from naive.

This all can’t happen on a first day of a new year and be miraculously fixed. I’ve lived long enough to know better. 

But on a last day...we can try to leave behind what’s been wrong and start again somehow, right? 

May this New Year be the start of something that brings you the best and gives you the strength to deal with the worst.