New Beginnings...?

"New Beginnings"... The last few days I have heard these words repeated many times in refering to the start of a new year but what does it really mean? I suspect you would probably get a different answer from each person this question is asked. For some, it will be a time in which they will reinvent themselves; an effort to shed that which is on the exterior in the hope that they will be viewed in a new light. For others, they will turn their focus to the interior; seeking self enlightenment to give themselves new purpose and meaning in life. Yet still, there will be those who choose neither; for they will walk the path of yesterday and strive to correct the failures of the past. There will be those who through no fault of their own a "new beginning" will be thrust upon them, although not of their choosing they are forced into a different direction.

.....but for each new beginning must something come to an end? That's a question that I really don't know the answer but it reminds me of something I once read....

Without failure how would we know where we've been?

Without success how would we know where we want to go?

Without both how would we know how to get there?

I just thought those three phrases ring so true.....although my failures are many and my successes few I will not turn my back on tomorrow and live yesterday. I will take that next step in my search no matter where it might lead me and should my time on this earth come to an end before I reach that destination I will have left knowing that I was not the same person I was yesterday.....for that will be my greatest success!