A New Beginning...

The New Year is upon us once again and I still can't for the life of me figure out where the Old Year went. It seems as if I just started writing this 2011 thing and now that is nigh on obsolete..just a few hours is all it will take for us to make a big change..we will all have to write 2012! There is much hype everywhere you look about this being "THE END!" and that in itself is far amusing to me. Some people have deciphered the Mayan Calendar as predicting the END! The end of what? Should we all run around flailing our arms in wild hysteria because someone has decided that 2012 will see the the world as we know it cease? Has it not occurred to anyone with any sense that the mass hysteria is what would cause the end of the world? Not because some calendar becomes outdated..why think about it..my calendar becomes outdated every December 31st! ooops! Anyway, I have read where the Mayans, themselves, are amused by all of the hype! Smart Mayans!

Egret calmly hunting for breakfast!

I should think that if everyone had their own private little bayou or other piece of paradise, there would be no need to do all of this worrying. Then folks would realize that whatever is to be..shall be. That we cannot change it other than to change ourselves and if folks were truly at peace with themselves..why change? And here I go again...rambling on as if it would ever make a difference. I have found that peace. I am happy here. One learns a lot while tromping around the Bayou. The animals, themselves, are great teachers. If we would all watch and let them instruct us, there would be no need of the torrential amounts of worry and stress that we bring upon ourselves. Take, for instance, today...a lone egret fished for its breakfast in the early morning fog. Did this egret fret about what is to be with the coming new year? No...it takes one day at a time. It knows that there is nothing that it (or any of us) can do to make the world last one minute longer than it is destined. The egret just goes about its business on a daily basis..it lives its life as it was meant to be lived and does not worry about things that are out of its control.

Time for reflection..egret fishing for breakfast.

We could all learn a bit from that egret..we SHOULD all learn a bit from that egret. It will be stress and worry that will kill us far before the world ceases to be. Perhaps as a resolution this year, we should stop looking for the End of the World and strive for a new beginning..strive to find that inner peace. Slow down..take one day at a time..smile more..breathe deeply..find your own little paradise..even if it is in your own backyard.

No..this egret is not flailing about in wild hysteria..it is just taking off in a gentle flight!

I hope that the New Year brings health and happiness each of you. As an added word of advice..don't run around flailing your arms in wild hysteria..it won't solve anything. It will only make you look plumb silly! Happy New Year, folks!