The Old and the New

Yesterday is an index of tomorrow

The old year has passed, we say, and a new one has dawned,
yet in life there never is an old year that we can throw away
as we throw away the old calendar.
The life of one year flows on into the new.
What we were yesterday is an index of what we shall be tomorrow.

However, new year's resolutions have their place in our lives,
when they reflect our retrospective view of what has been bad
in the experiences of the recent past and what we hope to
make of the days that lie ahead.

Humans are self-conscious creatures.
Can take knowledge of our situation,
appraise the direction in which we are traveling and,
if we are wise, plan a future course that takes
advantage of past lessons learned and promises
a safe continuance of our adventure.

Like mariners consulting their charts and compasses after passing through a storm, this is a time for setting our course anew.
Knowing the conditions that may menace their course,
if those mariners are wise they will devise ways
to meet the challenges and successfully berth their craft
at the end of their voyage.

Human beings, moreover, have a will
- a self-determining faculty, a capacity for choice.

If it is true that we know better than we do,
the reason for our failure often is that we
fail to exercise the supreme endowment given us
to determine our destiny.
Unless fortified by will, new year's resolutions,
like wishful thinking, get us nowhere.

For the people who fortify their resolutions with will
and chart their life course by the Golden Rule,
2009 will hold promise.



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