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title: "Frenetic Scribblings #30: Betwixt past and future"
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date: 2017-12-31
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And so we stand. Astride the years.
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For this day and this day alone. The time between two days is the time between two years.
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New Year’s Eve is special because it signals a divide. Between past and present, between present and future. It is also associated with death of the old and birth anew.
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If there is any time for reflection, it is now. Look forward, look back. Stand astride the years and look each way.
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Then leap.
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Dive into the future. Into new adventures.
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Go forth with all your heart. I’m a firm believer in the principle of what you put in being returned to you.
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So put in everything.
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Reflect, but don’t let it tie you down.
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Drink deeply, from life and all its experiences.
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Tonight will be my last night devil-dancing with alcohol. I know myself and I know I’ve been but a small step away from addiction. Better to stop myself now than to attempt to wring myself out later.
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I also intend to join a gym going into the New Year. My resolutions couldn’t get more stereotypical, except for the fact they are not resolutions.
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The root of New Year’s Resolutions being notoriously difficult to stick to is [the mindset around them](https://medium.com/@krisgage/how-to-keep-resolutions-and-do-2018-right-db3610658409). You can’t change something in your life just by thinking you ‘should’ or ‘shouldn’t’.
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You have to want the change. To embrace it. For me, giving up alcohol is something I have been considering for a long time. It’s not a resolution in the traditional sense, resolution just happens to be a good word for it. And New Year’s happens to be a symbolic time.
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If you want to change with the turning over of the years, you have to truly want to change. Desire it, set your resolve. Change is a fight, so dig in for it.
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After that, all begins to fall into place.
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I make no apologies for the following cliche… Until next year!
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> Thought for the day: You’re always one decision away from a totally different life |