LOOKING BACK- HAPPY NEW YEAR

I came across this song by ABBA- Happy New Year when I was looking for a song to feature in the entry before the year is over. The song talks about how two people were excited about the New Year and they find themselves at the end of the night feeling hopeless and their dreams dead. This song is fitting for this entry in so many ways. This is end of the year and we all had a resolution list at the beginning of the year, some of the things that were on the list we accomplished them and some we did not. I know a lot of people will be writing on their statuses #newyearnewme #newyearresolution. (I will be one of the people with those hashtags lol). Before we all do that we need to consider few things.

First of all we need to look back at the year and see what we liked about ourselves and what we can improve on. Most of us we make resolutions based on what we want to accomplish during the coming year not what went wrong the previous year. If you made a resolution to lose 20 pounds this year and that did not happen, look back and see why it did not happen and how you can do things differently. If you want you can write down or take out your list from this year. Look at your list, tick the things you accomplished and contemplate carefully on why some of things on the list were not accomplished. You can go from there to making your New Years Resolution. 

Along the year we lost hope in some of the things that we set to do. One of my resolutions was to find a job or attend a graduate school. As the year went on, I had to defer my attendance to a graduate school for unexplained reasons, I started losing hope. I felt like giving up. We have that one or two things that did not work out and now that the year is over we have lost hope on continuing working on it. The thing is we all still need to work on it; we need to go back and see what we can do differently. You can even ask your friends, relatives, colleagues for help. Losing hope is not the answer to our problems. I have to tell myself this all the time. So maybe we can work on gaining our hope back and being motivated together. May we all have our hopes, our will to try, If we don't we might as well lay down and die (ABBA)

Some of us we will be carrying old baggage along with us to New Year. Baggage can be friends who bring you down, friends who pretend to be your friend or a significant other who does not add any value to your life rather they bring you two levels down. It can be a bad job or bad relationship. This is the time to reevaluate if that baggage is worth keeping and dragging with you into the New Year. Truthfully, most baggage is better left in the past so that you can start afresh. My friend told me yesterday that there are somethings you just need to do it (Let go) because they are not worth of your time or energy. Be the new you that you are hashtagging about. Don’t write status that you are not going to accomplish. Mean it and just do it!!!!

So my good friends have a blessed New Years Eve and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(If you found a lot of mistakes in the entry, I am sorry I gave my editor the holidays off lol)