Day 1

It is the New Year, and that deserves a post, just because.

Everyone has been doing very reflective and solemn posts about what 2015 was like, and what they hope to become in 2016.

It is my personal experience that whatever I hope at the start of the year will be duly forgotten within the hustle and bustle of life. Perhaps it is only through muddling our way in life, that we realize at the end of the year, that we may have achieved what we resolved to at the start.

People tend to say that 2015 was not the best year for them, though it was a year of learning, and they hope that 2016 will be better.

It's odd, because I thought about it and I could find no way to define what was "the best year". I thought about whether 2014 was better or worse off than 2015, and I could come up with no definite answer, except that maybe 2015 was better than 2014. In fact I may have already forgotten most of what happened in 2014.

 It is our tendency to dwell more on the negative and sad things, and it is human nature to forget as time passes. 

Perhaps by mid-2016, we will be swamped in our work and troubles, and we will think "I wish this year had gone better". And by end-2016, we reflect that 2016 was not as good as we had hoped, and cross our fingers that 2017 will be better.

I'm not sure about everyone else, but I think I'm quite guilty of thinking more about the bad things that happened, and forget about the small, happy things that brought me through the year.

And so because I have no criteria to judge 2015 against, I won't say that it wasn't the best year (because every year after may be even better, or even worse, so how can I say it was or was not the best?). I would just like 2016 to bring me many new opportunities: to learn, to grow, and to achieve. (And to start using my infinite stash of makeup products).

Oh, and also to lose weight. I just weighed myself and it wasn't a nice number. Holy makgulli.

Happy New Year to you all! May we all set out to achieve what we resolved to do!