Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Teach me tonight how to live forever...

Just set your watch to January. Put your past behind you and start over. It's hard to resist the chance of a new beginning, a chance to put all of our problems to bed...

But who gets to determine when the old ends and the new begins? It's not a day on the calendar. Not a birthday, not a new year. It's an event, big or small, something that changes us. Ideally it gives us hope. A new way of living and looking at the world. Letting go old habits, old memories...

But what I think is most important is that we never stop believing that we can have a new beginning, and that amid all the crap are a few things worth holding on...