New Beginnings
Blian Núa Shona Dhuit – Happy New Year to you and those you love. My global wish (hey, why not be ambitious?) is that we all learn to prioritise the truly important things in life and concentrate less on the superficial and commercial.
I had a lovley break over the Christmas, didn’t even check my email for nine days straight!!!
I hope that you all, my two lovely readers 😉 had a beautiful Christmas, as I did, spent some time with loved ones in my family, had lots of great food, some great walks, some great sitting and watching classic b+w films and some great chats.
As for New Year’s Eve – I have to admit that I have never been really interested in all the fuss that accompanies it, even in my younger and wilder partying days I was never into the N.Y. Eve parties, the resolutions that everyone assumed would not last past February, singing and hugging complete strangers etc. It all seemed exaggerated, superficial and unreal.
When I was younger I was not quite sure why I felt like this, it’s not as though I didn’t enjoy partying as much as the next young one and I wouldn’t have known a grounded, living-in-the-moment person if I bumped into one, which wasn’t likely in the places I hung out! It makes more sense now that my life has changed quite a bit and I have stopped floating through life in a smokey and busy haze, taken the time to challenge some of what I was running away from, dealt with some of the baggage that I was dragging around.
The concept of living in the moment was a difficult one for me to grasp, obviously I knew what it meant intellectually but it was a while before my heart caught up. No surprise there, my head was nearly always in the way. I still struggle with that but now when I speak of getting out of my head it’s a very different out of my head experience than that of the eighties! Now it’s about taking the time to listen to my heart, taking time out of the rush and hustle of life to slow down and really listen to what it is that I need, what it is that I feel.
For me this is not as easy as it sounds, I really have to remind myself to do it and sometimes I have hearing problems – it can take quite some time before I can clearly hear myself.