Happy New Year

Well that's it. The bells of the New Year have tolled, the party poppers have all been popped, Champaign drunk, dances danced, kisses stolen and resolutions most likely already broken.
Two thousand and nine is upon us all and with it brings twelve brand new months full of unknown joys, tears, love, laughter, births, deaths, trials, tribulations and adventures.
For some of us they have started already, a new horizon dawning on an old life already full of memories and experience, for others theirs is the expectation of what is yet to come. Wars won and lost, defeats commiserated and victories celebrated. As it was written and loved by so many I say to thee do not go gentle into that good night, fight the good fight, live life to the full, if it has made you smile have no regrets, only regret those things you wished to have done, decisions you wish you had made, embrace life with all that is within you, take hold of it with one hand and with the other take hold of your loved ones and carry them with you on the adventure we are all embarking upon, take the road less travelled and experience life to the full. Life is addictive and infectious; once you have sampled it you will want more as will those around you. Every now and then step across the line and break the rules. You are never too old, too fragile, too poor to say yes to an adventure. Step out, step up and be noticed. Recognise your own potential and aim for only the very best. Lick the lid of life and believe your own hype.
We are all true believers in dreams and fantasies, in knights and princesses, in gold and rainbows, in once upon a time and riding off into the sunset. Don't let the world around us spoil the life within us. When all around us seems lost it takes only the smallest of lights to make the darkness retreat. Reminisce but don't live in the past, what's done is done and what will be will be, keep your eyes on what's to come if you are too busy looking at the past you may miss your future. Live the dream we all had when we were too young to know any better, find the child within yourself and let them out to play, take the time out to stop and look around once in a while, recognise the true gifts you have been given and never for one second take them for granted or one day you may find them gone. When you love somebody, love them, do not hold back, love them with all that you have, you will never run out of love so why keep it to yourself? Emotions are a gift from God, all of them, embrace them and understand them, they help to create and mould you into the person you are destined to be. Never be afraid to know what's around the corner, do not fear change it will enrich your life if you let it.
Life is there to be lived, so live it, you are not a passenger on this trip, and where you go is up to you and only you. If you stay in neutral you won't get very far and only have yourself to blame. Start the engine and see where the road takes you.
Enjoy 2009, I hope our paths will cross and that we can travel together for some of the journey.