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...
