If you know me then you know I’m a massive U2 fan and one of my long time favorite songs has always been new years day. It’s an early classic from the band and is highly regarded as one of the top 500 rock songs of all time. Naturally, it’s a great song for the last few weeks of the year and it came across our Alexa last night and it got me to thinking about all of the ” 2020’s almost over, Horray Things are going to be so much better in 2021 posts” that are starting to pop up all over social media.
There’s a particular line in that song that really stuck with me. ” Nothing changes on New Years Day.”
I’m not trying to be a Debbie Downer here but if/when a ball drops in time square this year and we ring in the new year its just another arbitrary finish line we cross multiple times in our life, it’s just another lap around the sun in this race called life.
I’m cautiously optimistic that our trajectory will be on the incline over the next 12 months but change/progress happens slowly and over an extended period of time very few things of significance in life move at the speed of a light switch.
Oftentimes change happens so slow that you don’t realize that you’ve passed that “finish line” you were looking for miles and miles ago. Today’s moral of the story is to put your head down and keep on trucking because finish lines are just a figment of our imaginations.
Subjects to change 