Still one day left in 2010 and people are so busy with organising the New Year’s Eve activities. They call some friends to arrange a local trip or will be having a nice dinner with the family. Everyone is getting so excited yet panic at the same time. Either they are getting nervous with the Big Day or anxious if they will not spend a good time during the day.
It seems to be funny afterall. From three hundred sixty five days in a year, why people are so worried that they will not be happy on one day? Is it because it has been celebrated globally as the most important day of the year? Is it true or perceived to be true?
There goes one saying told me that sometimes we should think the opposite from what people always think. If they say that you have to turn right to get the fastest route on a trip, sometimes you will get the fastest one when you turn left instead. Now, if we are thinking hard of what we should do during the last day of the year, why don’t we think of what we have done during the other 364 days?
Nevertheless, there might be some arguments about living in the present and not dwelling in the past. So when you try to recall all happenings during the year, does it mean you just want to stay in your memories and be ignorant of your present time? If someone has the same thought, please forgive me that my belief is entirely the opposite.
Most of the time, people tend to look at the history for anything present. Let’s say, the investor might look at the chart of share price in order to predict the future share price and estimate the profit they would have earned by then. Or the accountant should look at prior working paper to see how a certain asset or liability should have been booked in order to keep being consistent.
So for argument sake, let’s assume that past is essential for present development. From the past, we learned and knew which one is good or bad, right or wrong. We grabbed the experience so that we can move forward and didn’t turn back to do the same mistake.
Life, I believe, is a continuos learning process. Along with the time continuously moving, people are expected to be more mature and experienced. Yet, can we make a generalisation for that statement? The answer is it depends on the human itself.
If we, as a human, can accept all mistakes we did in the past, all troubles we faced and most importantly, accept ourselves just the way we are, yes, we can be success of moving forward to the better way of life.
But, if we do not understand the importance of the past, we might not learn enough, then we just keep staying in the same hole, same problem and same suffering. Or even easier, we can simply blame others of the misery we would face in the future. Pointing fingers at the other people, cursing the corrupted government, bad weather, bad economy policy, etc. Blaming is much easier but you will never get out of your own problem.
So, if you do not really have anything to do on New Year’s Eve, why bother?
You can simply just sit, relax, think and learn from what happened during the other 364 days of 2010. Trust me, it is not an easy task to be done.
Happy New Year 2011. May all beings be happy and free from suffering.
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