WHAT’S IN A NEW YEAR?

Welcome on board folks.

It’s a brand new flight 2-0-1-3 to destination destiny. Whatever that means anyways for destiny itself can be sometimes elusive.

 

It’s that season once again when people often try to re-shape their so called elusive destiny by making New Year resolutions. An often futile effort that it is as it hardly lasts the first three weeks into the New Year depending on individual resilience of people who engage in it. All the same, the effort is worth it. The best way to get ahead, as they say, is getting started.

To be fair, I somewhat fall unconsciously into this fallible trend of setting resolutions on the turn of the New Year. More or less, it’s been engrained into one’s psyche from childhood and one does not but fall into it from time to time. As maturity and wisdom sets in, one stopped believing in and making “new year resolutions”. However, the self automation of the brain won’t let one be at the turn of the year. One just makes unconscious mental notes of what ifs and what nots.

In a few weeks time, this blog page will be clocking two years of consistent existence. And quite a number of mental notes have been made to make the blog more interactive for the reading pleasure of followers and readers. To be candid, the effort to run this blog has been worth it and I feel like I’ve achieved the purpose of starting it in the first place.

                                        

So what’s in a New Year? So much for entering into the New Year with a new slate and state of mind. So much for leaving behind the old year with our convenient amount of baggages. Yes, convenient for we try to shed some off to ease our way into the New Year. It’s often a convenient way for us to assert some form of control over our existence in this world of ours. It’s a convenient way for us to say we are still living and making profound decisions.

Decisions that we may easily renege on if not properly founded on cogent reasons. However, for a sufficiently deep mind, the relevance of the decision itself rests on the process by which the decision was arrived at. The New Year just helps bring time and chance together for most people.

I would meet a young lady during my recent vacation in Obafemi Awolowo University Campus and she’ll tell me she was shedding away all her numerous boyfriends and was looking for a steady relationship. She would assert that she couldn’t afford to go into the New Year with such boyfriends around. I naturally twitched my nose and practically rolled my eyes for I wasn’t convinced. Of course, I couldn’t allow her to see that. I know how women can be.

So it’s a new year. Many dreams unachieved in the old year find their way into the New Year together with newer ones. Dream jobs, Marriages, Baby christenings, House warming, Masters or PhD degrees, new cars and new businesses find their way into individual dreams and aspirations for the year.

The race of “this year must not pass me by, I must marry by force” which most women folks fall into starts all over again in the New Year. And the guy that keeps pushing his marriage for some flimsy reasons finally gets stuck and makes up his mind to marry the current woman he’s with. Sometimes because she’s the best he could find. Most times, because she was the one around and available when he finally got ready to get married. It’s all a complicated conundrum; one not easily understood.

And the society itself keeps dangling on the teeters of imminent destruction. More people are going to die this year from war, diseases, poverty and accidents. More children will die of malnutrition and diseases this year. The world may not necessarily become a safer place in 2013. The war in Syria wages on, the instability in Egypt rages on, the gun wielding America pedals on and the oil subsidy conundrum in Nigeria drum a familiar tune of #Occupynigeria.

Let’s face it; it is far easier to dwell on the positives we expect in the New Year. If per chance, we do try to think a little of our issues and how to address them, maybe we’d be a better society after all. Will 2013 be a better year for the world? That’s one question I’m not so sure the oratorical Barrack Obama -the Time Magazine Man of the year for 2012 - can answer without stuttering.

Have a beautiful year ahead folks. I’m hoping we’d all have something to be thankful for at the end of 2013.

Foye.