So 2016 awaits. I tend to find NYE a bit scary, I worry about the year ahead. I feel a bit differently this year as 2015 wasn’t great and I do really want to be more optimistic about this next one. The old game of snakes and ladders came to mind today when I was driving thinking about nothing in particular. I reckon the person who invented that was quite the philosopher because life really is like that. Hoping for ‘the best year ever’ seems rather naïve to me now, no year can be completely free from the snakes, we just hope for a few more ladders to be thrown in at the right time. So I hope for more ladders, or maybe to be better at spotting the ladders to climb up.
When I think back to my posts of last year, I seem to have done an awful lot of reflecting on life and whilst I’m a great believer in reflection, I think there is also a time to think less, and for me that time is now. I will admit to being quite low for a lot of this year and whilst the reflections helped it’s time to try and move past the reflective stage and get on with things.
So I’m not intending to change the world in 2016. I’m going to try not to be too hard on myself or spend too much time trying to figure out the meaning of life. I haven’t figured out my potential changes for 2016 but I will do and they will be active, fun and new – new stuff is good, very good. Bring in the new.
So I drink a toast to ladders in 2016.
Middle Muddlings 