Tight Grip
I would hate to be 2014 with all the pressure and expectations dropped off at the doorstep . I know that a calendar year has no feelings but if it did it would definitely have anxiety due to the prior year dumping a whole of yuck upon nice people and having to iron out preset wrinkles and fill some empty glasses. Everyone that had a sucky 2013 crouched in the mouth of 2014 ready and waiting planting seeds of hope and eagerly approaching new beginnings.
Yes, it is a new year but it is insane to believe that just because the date changed that everything else will. Nothing wrong with hoping or wanting a change and not at all silly wanting to take the bull by the horns and believing that you can stop it from charging you. Just think about the tight tuck we impose on the new year. I'm banging on about this because every year I do the same thing. Even if the passing year was good I hold the promise of the new year being better that something will open up and change my life around.
I'm like most people who have a favorite sport team that year after year regardless of some good games just don't make the playoffs of finals and say to console themselves " Better luck next year" Some of us like those die hard fans need a clean slate to start over. The diets, the exercising or promise to be organized, end a relationship or start one all start with unbridled enthusiasm then fade out before the next holiday sometimes before the month is up.
Since I am both the die hard fan and the team in order to remain in the standings I force myself into thinking I have a chance and go through the motion to attain what ever. I am holding the new year to promises it never really made and if nothing spectacular happens I have no one to point a finger at or blame; I so hate that. I think I will lesson my grip or expectations for this year to I need to roll my sleeves up and get busy and rely some on fate and not keep such a tight grip on what might happen.
Yes, it is a new year but it is insane to believe that just because the date changed that everything else will. Nothing wrong with hoping or wanting a change and not at all silly wanting to take the bull by the horns and believing that you can stop it from charging you. Just think about the tight tuck we impose on the new year. I'm banging on about this because every year I do the same thing. Even if the passing year was good I hold the promise of the new year being better that something will open up and change my life around.
I'm like most people who have a favorite sport team that year after year regardless of some good games just don't make the playoffs of finals and say to console themselves " Better luck next year" Some of us like those die hard fans need a clean slate to start over. The diets, the exercising or promise to be organized, end a relationship or start one all start with unbridled enthusiasm then fade out before the next holiday sometimes before the month is up.
Since I am both the die hard fan and the team in order to remain in the standings I force myself into thinking I have a chance and go through the motion to attain what ever. I am holding the new year to promises it never really made and if nothing spectacular happens I have no one to point a finger at or blame; I so hate that. I think I will lesson my grip or expectations for this year to I need to roll my sleeves up and get busy and rely some on fate and not keep such a tight grip on what might happen.