Last year, five years ago, a decade ago, and a century ago have all become history.
There is no known or recorded way to reset time’s hands for travel back in order to prevent mistakes we’ve already made, or to avoid wrongs that ill-thought judgments and decisions led us to impulsively make.
The good news is that once we have entered a New Year, we can all turn over a new leaf and usher in a brand new start.
Books contain leaves and pages, with each leaf generally consisting of two separate pages – one page on the front side, and one page on the back side.
When we turn a leaf in a book, we can usually look forward to reading about something with a slightly or completely different thought, focus, or theme than the one on the preceding leaf.
Seasons allow for new and different activity for the leaves on trees.
In some environments the winter is represented by barren and dry tree branches that bear no leaves.
As the spring approaches, those once barren and dry branches start showing a hint of growth, development, and newness.
By the summer, the branches proudly sport fully-matured and beautifully leaved branches that even go as far as providing shade for people and other living creatures.
Then with the onset of fall, the beautifully positioned leaves first slowly; and then rapidly fall off the tree branches to become part of the earth’s dusty surface.
And, the same cycle continues each New Year: dry spells; growth, development, and newness; full beauty, maturity, and useful service; the falling and turning over of old leaves so they can be replaced by new, healthier, and more vibrant leaves, etc…
We can now let our 2010 cycle of turning over new leaves in a New Year officially begin for each of us.
Movement from here can only be forward; which lets us all have new opportunities to focus on avoiding making the same mistakes we’ve made in the past, and trying to avoid making as many new mistakes as possible.
We can also attempt to reconcile and correct previous uses of poor judgment spurred by badly planned decisions.
The new leaves that are being turned over grant us new beginnings, new potential for success, and new and healthy stories to create through our New Year experiences.
Sharon M. Biggs, M.A., is a wife, mother, and 21st Century educational leader who serves as Co-Chair & President of Lifeline Foundation, Inc. This 23-year educator is also Founder, Editor, and Chief Writer of LifelineExtensions.blog. View Sharon's other published works at http://www.examiner.com/.
"Children are the globe's most precious commodity."
(Terence H. Biggs, Jr. ~ 2009)
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