Saturday, December 30, 2017

The journey ahead

The end of one year and the beginning of another is conventionally a useful time for an assessment of one's overall journey.  We roll up the past and carry it with us, but it is good to concentrate more on the present and the future.  This year politics continued to astonish, disappoint, and anger me, still intruding much more than normal into my day to day thinking - but in response I am trying to make the most of my own present, to try to look more critically into plans for the future.  This year has involved quite a bit of focused thinking about what I am doing, and why.
I'm not sure of any answers yet, but I don't want to let it drift.  I want to clarify my thoughts and make positive decisions about my activities/work this coming year and for the years following. 
And as for in general: who knows, perhaps if we all take a quietly enthusiastic tolerant attitude with everything and everyone we encounter, and a slow, questioning, positive outlook to our discussions then perhaps we as individuals at least will become better satisfied in our lives.  I'm going to try.



I hope that you all have a Happy Hogmanay, and that 2018 brings us all a better world both at home and abroad.  Best wishes all for the year ahead.

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4 comments:

  1. Eirene9:55 am, January 02, 2018

    All the best for a creative 2018, Olga.

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    1. Olga Norris12:45 pm, January 03, 2018

      Thank you Eirene, and all the best to you and yours too.

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  2. The Idaho Beauty4:00 am, January 10, 2018

    I'm with you, Olga. Your last paragraph mirrors my own thoughts on how I hope to approach the year. Anger and hate and intolerance and indignation gets one nowhere but more of the same encroaching more and more on every aspect of one's life. We may not be able to change the world, but we can at least have some impact on our immediate surroundings.

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    1. Olga Norris6:33 pm, January 10, 2018

      Sheila, let's hope that we feel a lot better this time next year!

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