Making deliberate choices this new year

So, what does it mean to have a new year? Isn’t the change just a figment of our collective imagination? Otherwise, the change from Dec 31 to Jan 1 is not much different from the change between Dec 30 and Dec 31. Yet Jan 1 is special because we consider it to be so.

We often learn its significance sub-consciously from our society, on how to feel and act about the new year. These feelings come almost involuntarily at the end of each year (thanks in part to the corporate media and school vacations).

The point here is not to question the significance of the new year, but to take the new year deliberately, to transform its meaning and make conscious choices about what to make of it.

Let’s make this year a special year, a year of deliberate choices. Not just any choices, but deliberate choices with a critically/spiritually conscious perspective and goals. Let's seek deeper and lasting awareness, beauty, and peace. Let's devote ourselves in the pursuits of truth and justice, individually and collectively. And let's transcend the narratives and preoccupations of our ego to connect to the heart of humanity and the essence of reality. Let's define our new year's resolutions in terms of revolutions!