New Beginnings and Goodbye’s

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Throughout our lives we encounter many ‘new beginnings’. And a lot of those ‘new beginnings’ coincide with the milestones in our lives; our birthdays, graduation from school, getting your drivers license, a new job, marriage etc.
Although we usually look at these milestones as goal that we have reached, at the same time they signal the start of something new. A new sense of freedom, a new sense of family, a new sense of responsibility...

It tells us a lot about how ‘new beginnings’ work in our lives.

With each milestone, each goal that we have reached, we are at a point of setting new goals and reaching for new things. And whether we do it consciously or not ~ as we start reaching out for the new thing that life has to offer, we say goodbye to at least a part of where we have come from.

In graduating from school we say goodbye to the classes we took and the friends we made. We may well meet again, yet at that time everything is ‘new’. New circumstances, new stories to tell... In finding that first ‘real’ job; you say goodbye to the odd jobs you have taken on to make ends meet, and hello to your career, to a ‘real’ income.

And this is as it should be. In moving on to something new, we say goodbye to something old. In doing so we create the space ~ we free up the time and energy ~ in our lives for the new thing to develop in; so that the new thing can start giving us a sense of fulfillment, and joy, and eventually accomplishment.
At that point we may well have reached another place in our lives where we decide to start something new...

This principle is most obvious to me as we are celebrating each New Year! We say goodbye to the Old Year and welcome the New Year ~ celebrating the new opportunities it will bring! We set new goals for ourselves in our New Year’s Resolutions; and we are optimistic that this will be the year that we will achieve our goals...

It is a cycle that is tied to the movement of our planet around the sun. Every time the earth completes it journey around the sun, we re-evaluate, we say goodbye to the old and hello to the new.

In the same way we can look at the cycle of the moon... Every new moon brings an opportunity to reach for something new!

And if we really want to, we can experience that newness every day ~ as every spin of our planet; every cycle of day and night gives us the chance to say goodbye to that we no longer wish to bring along, and say hello to a new beginning.
A Brand New Day!
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