Time for a New Year, With the Same People

O yes, it's 2009, it's the new year, time for a fresh start. The time where we all say something small we want to change. For some it's losing 20 pounds. For other's it's just to eat healthy. Others it's to take up and instrument. But alas it usually fails, we remember how much we like a good burger, or forget to go running everyday, or we don't have time to practice music. Ha, what an ironic holiday.

Well what can you say, change is hard, even with little things. It's not something that comes natural to people. Even the little things that we don't notice in our lives are hard to change. We call it a New Year, a time for change, well it is a year, just not the time for change.

The time for change is everyday, of every month, of every year. It's not when a new year starts, it's when you realize something needs to change, so you change it. It's not "Hey it's 2009, I'll lose some weight," it's "Hey I'm overweight and I don't want to be." People have to realize that change doesn't just happen you have to try, you have to make a conscience effort to make things better. It's a simple concept, that for some reason people just don't notice.

Well it's 2009, and I'm the same and your the same, but maybe just maybe, at the end of this year, I'll be a little different, and so will you.

Just Think About It,

Tufte