There are only 2 sureties in this world. Death and Taxes....
Everything else is subject to change just as the saying goes.....nothing is permanent except change.
While it is not my habit of writing down my new years resolution and pasting it on the wall as a timely forgotten reminder, this year was slightly different as I felt rather serendipitous and negated the process of even thinking of a resolution apart from the usual reflex response to people who eventually do ask and I give them a standard set of answers that I've carried over the years. Sometimes I feel it defeats the purpose of writing resolutions if the following year it is still a carry forward from the previous year or two, with the additional title of "pending" or "in the process".
Being serendipitous is not really that bad......the most important thing of serendipity is to keep an open eye, open mind and open heart. People who have set rules can never appreciate the beauty of serendipity......For the will only see what the mind wants them to see, and defeat the whole purpose of making a fortuitous discovery when one is not searching at all.....
Mine came on New Year's Day itself....actually events lead to it which are interconnected. New Year's Eve I stumbled upon an old family friend who has not seen my parents and I planned a meeting for them on New Year's Day. As a result of the meeting I was in a shopping mall that held some redemption program for the very credit card I use and I got myself a really cool looking 6th generation iPod Nano (go look for it yourself). By evening I was messing around with it like a small boy with a new toy and of all things to do, I switched on the radio and tuned in to my regular station. And on air was Steve Jobs 2005 Standford Commencement Address.
I shall just save my fingers the pain and cut and paste the excerpts which I feel is most important and will change my 2011 and hopefully yours...
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you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something–your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
"Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle."
"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma–which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
So this will be my resolution.....
To hope that the above may inspire you as how it will inspire me to face the future.....
Welcome 2011
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