Make 2017 your year
It’s a new year, and many of you feel optimistic.
Many of you want many things to
change and improve.
What does it mean? This year has just started. How do you feel? How do you want to feel? It is a good start to know yourself, know your feelings, what you expect and what you want. But, who knows those answers? I certainly don’t. Rest assured that most of the time, instead of knowing what you want, you know more about what you don’t want.
For example, you don’t want to fail or to become a failure. You want to feel you accomplished something. You are part of something great. You want to be someone and you want to enjoy something.
You want to be happy, even when you don’t know if that is going to happen. You want it, you want to enjoy this ride and not only watch from the side as the parade passes by.
Since you are here you might as well engage, take control, take the wheel and drive this vehicle of your life. You could stop thinking and start doing, stop saying, “When the time comes”, stop waiting and just do.
Make your checklist, the resolutions of your desire, list your dreams and your goals. Tackle the small ones first and break the big ones into smaller chunks. It’s easier to lose weight one pound at a time rather than to aim for 20. Keep your goals simple, reasonable, logical, reachable. You know what you can do and what you cannot. Aim to be better than yourself.
This year can be a great year and it should be. If the previous wasn’t, this one should. You’re the one who is in control of your life. Think, any success is your doing, your effort, your revolution. You alone can use your talents to make a bet on life that you can and should try to make something out of it, something that would make you win.
If you are alone and don’t want to stay that way, then there you go, a goal for your year. Get up, get off the couch, don’t stand there looking at the parade, reach out, shake a hand, laugh with them. Enjoy the now and make the most of it.
As the planet goes around and its gravitational pull caused by its mass produces the speed of time relative to its own nature, you are only but the victim of its effects. This time, which will continue whether you like it or not, will only remind you that every time a day passes, you had another chance to change the “now”. Make the most of what you have, you’re not responsible for the doing or not doing of others, you are only responsible for your own actions.
Please don’t forget your studies and most importantly, don’t forget to call home, to visit your friends, to make new friends, to meet new people, to go out and explore. This is one way of getting to where you want to be and only you can make it happen. You’re here to engage, to feel the vibes of life, to become what you want to become.
Believe me, I know it might take time to feel okay, to feel less sad, to feel less homesick, to have less doubts, to understand that this decision was harder than expected. But you’re not alone, or at least try not to be. Go out, enjoy the party, enjoy even the smallest things, the little details that will make you smile and forget the bitterness of the bleak colour in which life covers all that is.
Make the list and hang it on the wall in front of your bed so that when you wake up, it is the first thing you see. Stay focused, keep the hunger to want to improve, you are your own reason to become better and at the same time. Give yourself a chance so that when the time comes, you will be there for yourself, well prepared and well aware of what is to come. And in spite and feeling afraid, you stand and either face the rain, dance in it or simply get wet.
Editorial opinions or comments expressed in this online edition of Interrobang newspaper reflect the views of the writer and are not those of the Interrobang or the Fanshawe Student Union. The Interrobang is published weekly by the Fanshawe Student Union at 1001 Fanshawe College Blvd., P.O. Box 7005, London, Ontario, N5Y 5R6 and distributed through the Fanshawe College community. Letters to the editor are welcome. All letters are subject to editing and should be emailed. All letters must be accompanied by contact information. Letters can also be submitted online by clicking here.
What does it mean? This year has just started. How do you feel? How do you want to feel? It is a good start to know yourself, know your feelings, what you expect and what you want. But, who knows those answers? I certainly don’t. Rest assured that most of the time, instead of knowing what you want, you know more about what you don’t want.
For example, you don’t want to fail or to become a failure. You want to feel you accomplished something. You are part of something great. You want to be someone and you want to enjoy something.
You want to be happy, even when you don’t know if that is going to happen. You want it, you want to enjoy this ride and not only watch from the side as the parade passes by.
Since you are here you might as well engage, take control, take the wheel and drive this vehicle of your life. You could stop thinking and start doing, stop saying, “When the time comes”, stop waiting and just do.
Make your checklist, the resolutions of your desire, list your dreams and your goals. Tackle the small ones first and break the big ones into smaller chunks. It’s easier to lose weight one pound at a time rather than to aim for 20. Keep your goals simple, reasonable, logical, reachable. You know what you can do and what you cannot. Aim to be better than yourself.
This year can be a great year and it should be. If the previous wasn’t, this one should. You’re the one who is in control of your life. Think, any success is your doing, your effort, your revolution. You alone can use your talents to make a bet on life that you can and should try to make something out of it, something that would make you win.
If you are alone and don’t want to stay that way, then there you go, a goal for your year. Get up, get off the couch, don’t stand there looking at the parade, reach out, shake a hand, laugh with them. Enjoy the now and make the most of it.
As the planet goes around and its gravitational pull caused by its mass produces the speed of time relative to its own nature, you are only but the victim of its effects. This time, which will continue whether you like it or not, will only remind you that every time a day passes, you had another chance to change the “now”. Make the most of what you have, you’re not responsible for the doing or not doing of others, you are only responsible for your own actions.
Please don’t forget your studies and most importantly, don’t forget to call home, to visit your friends, to make new friends, to meet new people, to go out and explore. This is one way of getting to where you want to be and only you can make it happen. You’re here to engage, to feel the vibes of life, to become what you want to become.
Believe me, I know it might take time to feel okay, to feel less sad, to feel less homesick, to have less doubts, to understand that this decision was harder than expected. But you’re not alone, or at least try not to be. Go out, enjoy the party, enjoy even the smallest things, the little details that will make you smile and forget the bitterness of the bleak colour in which life covers all that is.
Make the list and hang it on the wall in front of your bed so that when you wake up, it is the first thing you see. Stay focused, keep the hunger to want to improve, you are your own reason to become better and at the same time. Give yourself a chance so that when the time comes, you will be there for yourself, well prepared and well aware of what is to come. And in spite and feeling afraid, you stand and either face the rain, dance in it or simply get wet.
Editorial opinions or comments expressed in this online edition of Interrobang newspaper reflect the views of the writer and are not those of the Interrobang or the Fanshawe Student Union. The Interrobang is published weekly by the Fanshawe Student Union at 1001 Fanshawe College Blvd., P.O. Box 7005, London, Ontario, N5Y 5R6 and distributed through the Fanshawe College community. Letters to the editor are welcome. All letters are subject to editing and should be emailed. All letters must be accompanied by contact information. Letters can also be submitted online by clicking here.
