Looking Ahead Looking Behind
Every year we ring in the new and ring out the old at New Year, with pomp and celebration. But let us pause to think ! We have lots to learn from what we have left behind. Some are tangible but many are intangible, taking stock of this will help us to focus on our future. We see people passing on, we make new friends, families expand and some contract, jobs are changed, we see ourselves different in the mirror based on our cycle of life. For a teenager it is coming out into the world and learning to be an adult, for twenty plus time to start life in a job and as a bread-winner, for someone in their thirties it is time to work harder to achieve their goals, for someone in their forties it is time to discover the first grey hair and wrinkles and for those above fifty time to plan their retirement or reminiscence on how the world has gone by despite them and those over sixty it is time to start the downhill ride out of this world living and savoring every day they live and those who are...