Happy New Year

Happy apparently can be debatable. A New Year, indeed, but who is to say it is happy. For some people the New Year brings a kiss at the stroke of 12, for others a moment of reflections and resolutions, while others find the New Year to be just another day, or a time to worry and stew. A broken curfew or driving home drunk can cause the New Year to start off as a bad year. However starting off the New Year happy is simply the perspective someone looks at it with. Getting a ticket can be seen as bad but if it helps the person receiving the ticket to not drive drunk any more than it was good. The same analogy can be used with the broken curfew. Sometimes, though, does it really start out bad? A bank robbed, a woman rapped, a family killed. All seem depressing, disheartening, and discouraging, but again it’s how you perceive it. Maybe the robber needed the money more than we did. Maybe the baby that was conceived from the woman being rapped was the answer to a couples prayers who couldn’t have a baby of their own. Perhaps the family was ready to meet their maker and to be in a better more peaceful place. Life can be a hard trial but it doesn’t have to be. It’s all in how you perceive it.