Beginnings

The first week of the year has just passed me by in a jiff. I have been trying to keep up with my resolutions and so far so good. I have been able to succeed in some... not all... but I am happy... and that is what counts.

I'd like to take this moment to reflect on newness... in beginnings. With the mere sound of the word, it already brings along a breath of fresh air, an excitement that livens up the blood. There are many things in my life that I would rather start all over again. In fact, I think I'd like to do that for most of what's in my life.

However, I have also been made aware that beginnings happen every moment of our lives... a decision separates decay and freshness. It is in the beginning over and over again that we finally get to ride the right wave and get somewhere.

I have long admitted that I get stuck by the mear thought that this is not perfect yet. However, as I grew older, i realized that beginnings do not only happen at number one, chapter one, first day or start of a task. Beginnings happen everytime the next step is taken to better the last.

To improve, to learn, to renew.... that is beginning that grows. We move along the stream of life not often having the chance to stop, ponder and start on a clean slate. We often have regrets, people we hurt along the way, tasks long overdue and bad habits we accumulated without meaning to. But does that mean that we are trapped, that our tomorrows will be as bad?

No. Unless we permit it. Everyday is a gateway, a passage. If we could begin every morning with yesterday's emotions tightly kept at bay, we will be able to move from point one to two and so forth. Knowing that the last step is done and it depends on you to make better the next.

Beginnings are for completion. But completion happens only if a beginning happens ..... and continue to happen. Beginning and completion - these two words happen alongside each other everytime. Each useless without the other.