It is time for some retrospection at least. I don't think I can count how many people said this year to me "don't you remember when it was 2000? doesn't it feel like yesterday?" So true. As we often heard when we were younger, "time flies by so much faster the older you become". We spend the first half of our life trying to speed things up and then next half trying to slow things down. We all seem to have that in comman.
Life last year was certainly up and down and full of tears and yes some smiles too. Sometimes I hate that I teach adult development and I am to impart these words of wisdom to these bright, optimistic faces. However, who am I to take away their optimism? We all should be optimistic because we don't know what the future holds.
I was asked recently why I chose this career path (to understand adult development). I said honestly that it was my experience with older adults and their wisdom they imparted on me that directed my path. I was in awe that despite the pain and tears they still embraced life. I want to give that back to my students...I want to live that.
So my New Years resolutions are not to find the love of my life or to get rich...they are to embrace life and the people that touch my lives or even better to embrace those whose lives I can touch.
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