Your New Year

I have been wandering: How many people do really care about the meaning of starting a New Year? While no-one is here to tell you what you should or should not do, please be aware of the importance of making a decision that might affect your whole life. 
But... this is "your" life and you do what you want with it. 
Happy New Year!

Knock Knock! (Part 3)

Your life is not bad at all, thank goodness, but you still feel that you have not  given of yourself and obtained from others the best yet. You keep experiencing the nagging feeling that you can do much more, that your capabilities have not been unveiled and displayed yet, that your potential is still waiting its great opportunity to be shown to the world. You also believe that – so far - life has not given you all that you deserve.

But...here comes the good news! In a couple of days a New Year is starting and you still have time to finally put your intentions into practice and make them become reality. You have already made promises to yourself and you have not kept them (or, at least, not completely). Now you can make up for your previous lack of resolution. Here is a new opportunity available to you. Year 2014 is knocking and you are going to open your door. Let creativity, willpower, determination, commitment, dedication and trust accompany you in welcoming the New Year. Once again, (and again, and again…) it is up to you to decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.
(The End)

Knock Knock! (Part 2)

In the late nineties you were anxiously waiting for the new Millennium to start because you had made plans. There were things you wanted to carry out or change in your life, you had great expectations from yourself and from others. The year 2000 came and passed and you felt that most things were still the same, including yourself. Then you began waiting for year 2012. You had heard the story concerning the completion of the Mayan Calendar and the possible transformation that could take place on all levels of the human existence. The physical, psychological, emotional, and/or spiritual levels might have been radically altered by the astronomical position of the stars. Year 2012 came and passed and here you are, at the end of 2013. The cosmos is still the same and your life has not changed very much. You have not done most of what you were planning to do, while you may have done something that you had not planned on doing. Quite a few things seem not to have gone according to your forecast. It is interesting to notice how seldom things in life follow the guidelines that had been previously set out. Why does this happen? Are human beings careless, lazy, or incapable? Not at all. They are simply “human” and, according to their (your, mine, our) nature, they talk and dream more than they actually take action.
(to be concluded)

Knock Knock! (Part 1)

I recently happened to bump into an old TV series entitled "Space 1999". Due to the fact that I have always been a big "Star Trek" fan, I just had to watch a couple of episodes and, I must say, it resulted to be fairly good '60s science fiction. What fascinates me most in this kind of old shows is the fact that they used to consider the end of the second millennium and, consequently, the beginning of the years 2000s as a far away time, where the world would be totally different. OK, now we are well into the 2000s. So? How does our world look like? Mankind has certainly not conquered space in the sense of traveling to the stars, visiting other galaxies, colonizing alien planets. We are still here, very much bound to the Earth, in spite of the few space missions, space stations, astronauts' space walks. But... we have technology. We have so many devices that literally turned the world into the long-predicted global village. There are no more secrets, everything (good or bad) is out in the open, no one seems to be willing to have a "personal", private life any more. But, enough of this.
Now... allow me to make a few considerations while I am extending my best wish to you for a Happy New Year.

Relativity

We say that all is "relative", i.e. everything has a meaning only if we consider it in relation to something else. By itself, in fact, it does not mean anything. It is simply "is". This can also be referred to great concepts such as Fatherland and religion, for instance. Think about boundaries. They are just pieces of land that signify the division between countries exclusively according to a geographical map drawn by political/historical events. Take Christmas (or any celebration of any religion). It is highly meaningful in Western countries (generalizing) while in the East (still generalizing) it is just a working day like any other.

A sad consideration? It depends. This, too, is relative. It is sad if we think that such state of being divides people. Otherwise, it is just a situation to be accepted as it is, with no implications whatsoever.

You Can!

Who decides the kind of thoughts your mind is going to experience? Many people say: This is the way I am, I cannot change. This is how my mind thinks and there is nothing I can do. But you "are" neither your thoughts nor your feelings. Your own "self", namely your spirit, is something outside the material world, including both your physical and mental body. Unfortunately, sometimes your true "self" is dimmed, that is why your conditioning makes you unable to realize your strength, your capability to decide what you want to think, in what direction you wish to channel your energy: in a nutshell, the kind of life you want to live.

Impossible Answer?

A question that can be rather puzzling is the following: if we are all human beings having an experience here on Earth, how come that our experiences are so different - provided that the destination is the same?

Looking around, you keep seeing extremes: one life that is full of good feelings, people who encounter many opportunities to love and be loved (independently from the final outcome) while others never experience true love or they are only disappointed by the few times they believe they might have found it.

There are lives lived in torment or perennial discomfort versus those lived in relative serenity. Some lead a life strewn with toughness, abuse, intolerance, while others mainly meet calm and peace on their path.

Not all human beings endure such extremes, that is true. Actually, most individuals float through a sort of mediocre existence where nothing really "strong" ever happens. No deep feelings, no exceptional happenings, just a normal routine with the usual little joys and upsets, ups and down etc.

Can a satisfactory answer ever be found to the starting question? 
When they say that Life is a Mystery, they (whoever they are) are not joking!