How can we be so certain about the moment when the old ends in our life? Can it be a single day, say a birthday or a New Year’s day on a calendar when we impose so much significance on those particular days? I feel this moment must implant: a hope, a new perspective to look at life differently, a new appreciation to reveal that there is an abundance of surprises in nature, a strength to let go of old habits and hideous memories. It must become an aide-mémoire* of hard work for a new beginning that sometimes appears to be impossible.
So. Before you realize what has actually happened, you will be celebrating the holidays again. As if, you blinked an eye and you were there! Does this sound like a marvel to you? What I hope most is: you will take a vacation, feel the dew on a winter morning and the warmth of the sun on a spring day, laugh your heart out, have a bite in a café with a friend, laugh again, take a stroll aimlessly, smile at your little victories and may just stand still to notice life as it goes by. Please keep a souvenir though, anything. One day it will remind you not all that you felt was a dream – just felt like one. “It’s also important to remember that amid all the absurdity there are a few things really worth holding on to.”
(* An aide-memoire is something such as a list that you use to remind you of something. Noun: A memorandum summarizing the items of an agreement)