Each New Year's Eve is an imaginary border where the reckoning about the past and the enthusiasm for the future meet.
One of the most famous example of annual reckoning story is repeatedly employed by Hollywood: The busy, ambitious and charismatic hero is late for the New Year's dinner. He is in a hurry to get together with his family, but an accident happens. He recovers from the accident with minor damage and arrives at his home; but he finds himself in a scene where no one sees or hears him. He overhears the family members’ complaints and longings about him. The audience understand that the accident was severe.
Fortunately, our hero would get out of this trouble, realize the value of the treasure he has – not his job, of course, but his family – and re-establish his life – this time, with a new priority order. The reality is as fragile as a glass ball, which should not be dropped.
Every new year is presented as a milestone for doing what you have always planned –a healthy life, the magical process of self-realization, the humble revolutions in business and daily life.
We should also remember that gyms, language courses, music and dance workshops all rely on the number of paying customers who do not attend.
We are in the middle of January now, and many of us has not taken any action for the new year’s plans yet. Do we really have two choices, i.e. calculating what we already have, and dreaming what we may have in the future? Is there a third option? Is it possible to merge these two together?
As Turgut Uyar -the great poet of Turkish language- wrote, can we stand “at the edge of all possibilities”?
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