Happy New Year’s everyone (if anybody at all is even reading this!)
Yet another revolution around the sun has completed and absolutely nothing has changed in the real world, and yet everything feels different!
I don’t know what to write about as this is the first article since a long time ago but one of my “New year’s Resolutions” (god I hate that term) is to start writing daily and posting consistently on this blog so maybe I’ll just write about that – what’s to come in the new year.
First off, it’s interesting to note the difference between physical reality and social realities – New Year’s is a strange concept since it doesn’t really have any inherent meaning. I mean, the planet spun around our local star – what does that even mean? The completion depends on where you start really.
But while physical reality can be super interesting in its own right – the social realities are the ones that are actually what we really live for. Those are the ones we create art for, those are the ones we use out imagination on. They are what make life beautiful.
So, I find myself drinking a warm cup of coffee with my family (if you don’t come home for the holidays, what are you?), unwrapping the gift waiting for me under the Christmas tree like a little kid – starting dead smack in the middle, making as much of a mess as I can and totally disregarding the way it’s been packaged.
I find myself patiently waiting for the New Year’s concert held in the cultural capital of the world – Vienna. Every year I see it on TV and wait for the chance to attend.
I started this self-improvement way of life around 10 years ago. It was on 1st of January 2015 that I woke up in the morning and exercised – something I’d never done before. But I was adamant on changing my way of life. Now one could argue how much changed but that sure was a big change!
I can’t believe time has passed by so quickly. I wanted to start writing this blog back then and yet here we are – I’m starting 10 years later. But it’s never too late
So while I don’t have any philosophy to share with you today, I want you to take some time and think about two things:
The social realities we take for granted every day – embrace them for they are what make life magical. Some people think 29 is too old for Christmas gifts.
I think fuck em’.
And second is, just fucking start. It’s been 10 years – let me reiterate, 10 YEARS!
Even this article maybe sucks balls but unless I started writing it, how would I have finished it?
We were 463 words into it before writing this sentence, but the only things you can never truly finish are the things you never start.
So let this year be a year of starting. A year of execution and action.
Let’s have more stuff to write about and less time to write about it – for then we are truly living and engaging with life instead of theorizing about it.
I wish you all a good year.
Let’s start it right..