New Year's Every Day

"May every sunrise hold more promise and may every sunset hold more peace."

Now is the allotted time every American understands; Christmas is past, and New Years Day is around the corner. Do you have any resolutions?

Or maybe the question is, what type of New Year's celebrator are you? You might be one of those people who lives for resolutions (whether you finish them or not is an entirely different matter), or you might not care for them at all. Whichever you are, it is not about the resolutions. At the core of New Year's, the concept is simply that the year is about to be over, and you have a blank canvas in front of you. You can paint whatever you want. New Year's is just an idea that...

Change is possible. If you don't like something about yourself, change it. But rather than making a resolution to stop doing something, make a resolution to start doing something that counteracts what you don't like about yourself. Instead of stopping wasting your time with one activity, make a resolution to every time you want to do that thing, you read a book instead or go on a walk.

But it's not that easy, is it? As human beings, the one thing you can count on is the devoted promise that we make mistakes. So I am here to propose the idea that maybe New Year's isn't just on one day, that you don't get just one chance to be who you want to be, but a hundred, a thousand, a million. Every day is a new day, a smaller blank canvas waiting for you to create who you are. You have a countless amount of new chances and opportunities in front of you, so that you can keep making mistakes until you get it right. And you will, especially with help.

So this next year, New Year comes every day.

Don't give up. Make those resolutions or not but always remember that each day is a new chance with new opportunities and new choices to make. You alone decide who you want to be. Take it one step at a time, one day at a time; don't tackle the entire empty mural of a year but take the days one canvas at a time until the mural is complete. It will be hard but do not give up. If no one else tells you in this death-filled world, I am proud of you. You can do anything, because at the start of a new day, there is the promise that anything is possible, and at the end of that new day, there is the peace that you did your absolute best. At the start of a new day, you can be whoever you want to be. So why wait until one midnight?

New Year's starts today.