To be plunged deep into the dark drudgery of January straight from the highs and happiness of Christmas and New Year celebration is a pendulum swing of extremes that we shock our emotions with year after year.
One positive aspect of this otherwise bad dream of bland anti-climax is the custom to renew perspective and to give time and thought to goals we hope to achieve in the coming year and to the action we need to take to begin the journey towards these endeavours.
The concept of the so-called New Year’s resolution is one that attracts much scorn, criticism and lampoon, but my view on the custom is a very positive one. Anything that brings aspiration – of any kind - to the forefront of our consciousness has to be a good thing. The over-arching drive behind nearly all these individual aims is the road to happiness and fulfilment.