Once every Year

Almost Six months ago, on my birthday I wrote a piece about how so many things come only once in a life time.


Today is the last day of the year 2010, the end of another decade and its only going to come once in our life time…Its usually a day when people stop to think of the last 364days of their lives, a day when people stop to ask themselves how the next 365 days of their lives would be, a day when people make tonnes of new resolutions considering all the changes they want to make in their lives and a day when people bla bla bla…

Amidst all these reflections it is usually a time for intense celebration and enjoyment with friends and families; a lot of kparakpoism and night time fire-working on the streets, the clouds are lightened like the triumphant entry of angels into heaven.

After all these celebrations, It’s hard to say what the New Year has in stock for us but the more modest our expectations, the more room we will have to surprise ourselves with amazing things in the New Year.

What is easy to say is that people will always be a part of your New Year just as they have been a part of your last years. The good and bad experiences that shape us are created daily with the people we come across in life, with the people we spend our time with, with the people we have those wonderful conversations with, with the people we care for, with the people who care for us and with the people whom we love and those that love us.

Our lives will ultimately be meaningless if we were to spend these 365 days without such experiences. So it’s actually worth dedicating this piece and this day to all those who have been part of my life in every single way good or bad. You have thought me something that can only contribute to making me a better, more resourceful, more flamboyant and more fruitful person. And I thank you all for that.

While I say thanks, I will also say in the New Year, simply keep your head up and stay focused, it’s not always easy to be right but always strive to do good, think about yourself but consider others.

Happy 2011 and wish all the best.

God Bless