I've never been a big fan of rowdy New Years celebrations. I don't quite get it, I suppose. I haven't been drunk for a L-O-N-G time. I didn't enjoy it, and I have no desire to repeat the experience. I've never been on Times Square waiting for the "magical moment" of watching the ball drop. (I think I'd go nuts in a crowd like that!) And I've made a resolution never to make another New Years resolution. I've never had a lot of success with keeping them.
But although I plan to avoid the hoopla, there really is something different about this night. It seems to point toward new opportunities, the possibility that the future will be even better than the past. It seems to be a day in which optimism is the norm, not the exception.
So today, my wish for you is that you will find that there's a reason for hope, a reason for optimism in the year to come.
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.
~Henry Ward Beecher
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