a new year

Well, its 11+ pm now on 31/12/07, just mins before the new year of 2008 begins. And here I am in front of my com typing out my last post for the year 07.

Every year just grows more challenging for every individual, doesnt it? Be it the dawn of 'N' levels, 'O' levels, starting a new life in JC/Poly, 'A' levels etc... a new and more exciting pathway always opens up before us at the start of the new year. But, how will we travel this road that lies before each of us, that though many have claimed to have thread on and experienced it before, yet to each individual it is unique and different? Perhaps this is one of the reasons why people come up with New Year Resolutions at the end/beginning of each year, to probably act as a navigation tool or a walking staff to aid them throughout the next 365 days of travelling through life. Well, does it work really? Ok, lets assume it does.

So how then, should we walk this new path that opens before us? How should we travel this road that many claimed to have taken but in fact none have taken?
Well, I think its really up to us, actually.

"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it."
Matthew 7: 13-14 (NIV)

"I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture."
John 10:9 (NKJV)

"I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one come to the Father except through me."
John 14:6 (NKJV)

Well, the bible does provide some directions for us actually, as seen from above. Hope you understand lol. Nevertheless, whatever methods and ways we have chosen, (i hope for the better..) let us try to remember and keep them, lest we stray and get lost before ever reaching the next rest-stop.

Let me tell you of the story of a person called you. Well, you has indeed pretty much gone through the entire of the old year and is now 1 min into the new year. you has learnt and experienced and gone through much in the year which had just came to an end. One thing about you (that you really regrets having) is that you has a very reflective mind which always thinks about events that have just passed. Well, you regrets having this because most of the time it causes much mental trauma, well, cos you thinks and reflects too deeply. The only reason you can think off is that you's mind is too old and far off for you's current capibilities, that are of course, restricted by you's age. Furthermore, it is almost impossible for you to control you's own mind with you's own mind. Many a times, internal conflicts arise within you which threatens to change the mental perspectives and alter the physical behaviours of you. Yet, at the end of the day, you has to learn to live with this. This may be a curse; it may be a blessing; nevertheless, this is what you has, this is what you has to live with. In most of the days outside, you is spotted with an ever-radiant darlie smile coupled with a nonsensical sense of humour by his peers, a nice guy maybe? Perhaps, this is the end-result of sleep which has a marvellous effect of wiping off unwanted memories of the past and this indeed is the real manifestation of you's nature and characteristics. Or perhaps, you is the greatest actor in the world who is able to fool those around him, and even himself. Of course, you can never be the greatest, for you is but only human and can never act 24/7. Surprisingly, simple is the most complex word in you's dictionary.

you has decided that in this new year of 08, you will attempt to find out who you really is. Perhaps, in this year, you will be able to find realise and understand and boldly go about being who you really should be, and maybe then only can you remove this 'o' and become the true yu he was meant to be.

For his sake, I hope he does.