Scrypton

Happy New Year everyone! I have just came home from a very big bbq dinner party at my mate’s place. Not only we had the best marinated meat, we also had high-quality talks about our achievements and failures over the past year and our expectations for 2008.

Whilst I believe everyone is looking forward to opening the doors 2008 and welcoming it with new opportunities and new attitudes, I for several second struggled with myself on closing the doors of 2007 and put everything behind me.

It was quite easy for me to settle all my achievements and accomplishments in 2007; it was harder for me to believe that I could close my failures in 2007 and contain them on the year they belong.

One of the things that troubled me the most was my speeding fines (yes they were plural) in which I am still waiting for the appeal result of whether they would be rescinded by RTA or whether I should still be slapped by them. I said to myself: how can I contain this issue when I can only expect the answer after the new year?

Then I suddenly realised that I have been limiting the outcome - that somehow I have expected the worst and believe that the best would never came.

At that moment my heart cried out - "please close them.. please close them!" To be honest it hardly changed my expectations, but somehow I was given a new perspective: things that were problems in 2007 could end up being blessings in 2008! Whatever the outcome, I am still blessed. If they got rescinded, then I would have one more thing to thank God for. If they dont get rescinded and I have to pay for the fines and lose my demerit points, then that would be one of the greatest things learnt over my life of learning.

New year doesn’t necessarily have to be all about new things. While some of the things stay in 2007, some things we carry over - like responsibility and commitment. And we should believe that those things will turn out (even more) beautiful in 2008. Or in its own time.