Welcome! New Year

Finally, 2011 has arrived.

2010 was the year that fundamentally changed many things in my life. I realized that what I believed to be solid and firm are actually fragile and precarious, and the future does not continue in the straight line from the past.

The end of the era should bring forward the new era, but no new era started for me in 2010, as I kept myself in the limbo, wishfully hoping that the new era will show its face and lead me through the chaos. This never happened without my active participation in life, and the year ended with the sense of immobile stagnation.

Luckily, I was in the position to ponder my past and prepare my mental state for the future, but I don't think I used the time wisely. I spent many hours "catching up" on things, or so I claimed to my friends and family, but in reality I was escaping from taking actions because I was in denial that the past has really became the past.

This needs to end now. To be inside the comfort of well-built cocoon is tempting, but this is counter-productive, and I'm still too young to stop living.

According to the Eastern horoscope, luck is cyclical, and there are times of growth and times of stagnation. I was told that 2011 is the year when my new cyclical era of good fortune and growth will start, and so I waited.

There is no more excuse for me to stay status quo, now that 2011 has finally arrived.

My new year's resolution is to accept that the past is really the "past"and move on.