Another Year Gone

As I get older, the years seem to fly by faster than when I was younger and the end of another one is here.

The year seemed to have gone by so fast, where did the time go? We had a pretty good year, thank God and I pray that the next one is just as good or better.

Everyone wants the next year to be better, right? Or if it can't be better, no worse than the last. I pray it's also better for those who lost their jobs and/or homes. I know how that feels firsthand and I wouldn't wish it on anyone. This past year has been tough on so many in this country and around the world, with the economy being what it's been and not to mention the natural disasters, it has been a year that no one, I'm sure, wants a repeat.

A new year gives us all a new beginning, a new hope for things to be better, even if it's just succeeding at the new year's resolutions we made. I've made one, one I've made in the past, to lose weight. One I'm sure so many others have made. I've lost some over the last few months, but I still have about twenty more to go. I've lost it before, so I know I can do it again, it just takes getting up and doing it, getting motivated. Thank goodness I haven't given up my Weight Watchers on line membership.

The hardest part for me is the "getting motivated" part, as I'm sure it is for a lot of people. This coming year though I plan to succeed for good. I said that the last time too, only to gain the weight back, but this time, I plan not to have that happen.

I know that if I put my mind to it, I can do it. I quit smoking and that was almost fourteen years ago and I never looked back. I need to have that same mindset again. I had it the last time I lost weight, but lost it. I need to find it again.

I, like so many others I'm sure, resolve to make the coming new year better than the last and I plan to succeed. I also pray that everyone else who made the same resolution succeeds. But to make sure that you make it into the new year, please if you're going to party tonight, do it wisely. If you drink, don't drive. Have a designated driver.

Here is my wish for everyone, have a safe and a very happy New Year. May God bless you in the coming year and in those that follow.