This New Year's I thought on 2010 being the start of a new decade, and how quickly the last decade passed. It got me to thinking, what did I accomplish or what significant transpired in the last 10 years? What were significant things that I learned?
I actually plan on sitting down and figuring those very questions out and writing them down. They are however, a bit too personal to post here. Where the past 10 years then leads us is to the now and the next decade that faces us. Here are a few things that really struck me...
* At the end of this now beginning decade I will have teenagers who are approaching the age of exiting the 'nest'.
* I will be at the age where I have long thought I should be achieving a professional peak.
* I will be about the same age as my Mum was when the cancer came into her life.
* My Dad will be in his mid-seventies and still around I hope
* Given the age that women in my family live, I will be at the middle of my life!
For some reason the dawning decade seems more significant. Perhaps it is the experience of the last decade and the maturing that went on. Perhaps it is that I finally feel rooted in who I truly am. Which makes me fearful that I will be afraid to make the right choices, and continue denying that true person what she deserves. I think on how fast the last ten passed, and that I had better not be wasteful with the next 10. Perhaps it is that I am noticing aging in the reflection I see in the mirror. I also think on the fact that the next decade are years that my children will be able to recall as adults... their first few were most formative and I gave so much to their development, but truthfully that will go unremembered.
Regardless, I enter 2010 thoughtful and as a seeker of authenticity, knowledge, beauty, and love. May your year unfolding be all that you dream of. May your decade bring not only what you seek, but what you need and deserve. Remembering that each day we have the ability to make choices on the paths we follow, however small they may be.