Happy New Year! I hope the first week of the new year has treated you well. We brought in the new year here in Arizona by going to ZooLights at the Phoenix Zoo (see image below) and by seeing comedian Christopher Titus at Stand Up Live Comedy Theatre in Phoenix as well. I thought it was a good sign to bring in the new year at a zoo and comedy club.
I have felt a new energy with this new year - it may be that I have already taken on more than I can chew only one week in, but, regardless, it is great new found energy. I am not sure where this new energy has come from, but I am embracing it. There is a lot of new stuff going on this year, for example, I live in Arizona. I never rang in a new year in a state other than Maine. I must say I miss east coast time for occasions such as that. By the time it was the new year in Arizona, it had been a new year in Maine for two whole hours. It just makes me feel like I'm always behind ... It's nice to feel like I have a new, fresh start in Arizona. It is a new semester at school and work which helps that energy continue.
Personally, I feel that I have a new priority list that has been resulted with this energy and I have a new perspective on life. Now, I want to make it clear that I do NOT believe this new perspective is strictly due to the fact that it is suddenly 2012. I think it has been brewing ever since leaving Maine and stepping out of my comfort zone. It just so happens that has culminated around the time of a new year. I am appreciating what I have more and putting emphasis on events rather than objects. Everyday here I am exposed to a new culture, new values, languages I have never heard before, I see the haves and the haves-not coexisting. It sort of forces you to step back and see what you have in a new light. I am so very grateful for all that I have and the opportunities that lie before me.
Normally, I don't make new years resolutions; I usually make a list of regrets from the previous year. I then resolve to not have the same regrets the following year, ripe up the paper of regrets and move on. I did not have a single regret from this past year - and I finally follow through on some long over due regrets, like not getting my license. And maybe not living with regrets is part of this new found energy, with a new perspective in this new place.
Thanks for reading!
-M
