We find our place in time by setting calendar landmarks. The Gregorian Calendar year is such a landmark that helps measure time. As 2019 ends, we will be ending such a landmark and right away begin a new one. Many of us have the habit of making new resolutions for the new year. It is a healthy habit as goals create landmarks that motivate us towards progress, and progress gives us a sense of fulfillment. We may have set goals at the beginning of 2019; have we fulfilled them? Maybe life had different plans for us last year so if we have not fulfilled our set goals, what other accomplishments constitute our 2019 legacy? Was it a year lived? Was it a year endured? Did we make good with the time allotted us? What kind of goals should we set for 2020? We can make goals to lose weight, pay off our credit card debt, to save money for a certain item or project, but time goes by so fast, (or so t seems as it has always gone at the same speed), and none of us knows when is the road ends. I recently saw a short film where they reported the findings of interviews that they had had with the dying. “What is your biggest regret?” they asked. Each replied and surprisingly, the majority of people expressed that their biggest regret was not what they had done wrong or the mistakes they had made, but their biggest regret was all the things that they hadn’t done but wished they had, especially concerning their relationship with loved-ones. If we knew we were to die before the end of 2020 what would be our goal then? Would it be to make sure to spend quality time with our loved ones? To restore broken relationships? Another thing to think about. We decide what we put in focus or what we decide to blur, so may we be wise as to what we decide to blur or to focus on in our new years’ goals. Let's blur the things that cause division and issues and 20/20 focus our attention on the things that really matter: our relationship with others.
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