This New Year brings a lot more than insincere resolutions. It brings hope. Something many have lost sight of because of the rough times we’ve had of late. Japan, Haiti, Libya, Egypt, and of course, we have our own problems right here in the old US of A. Let me be the one to tell you, we’ve seen worse.
How many wars have we won, apparently lost, but came back from? How many times have we been threatened, and responded with unparalleled force? How many times have we faced certain doom, only to bring ourselves back from the brink, and prove ourselves once again, the victors in a once-thought un-winnable war.
We, as Americans, will overcome whatever is brought before us. Governments change, people change, and so must we. We must prepare ourselves to sacrifice unneeded luxuries, to make way for necessities. We must prevent vain indulgence, and replace it with much needed improvement. We are tough, we are strong, and we will never give up without a fight.
There isn’t a budget, a plan, a policy, a law, a bill, a declaration, or any words of any kind that can change once simple fact. We need to change.
We can. We will. This is the state of things.
Those of you who know what I am talking about, I tip my hat to you. Those of you who don’t, I wish you a Happy New Year, a pleasant Holiday season, and may you be safe, and enjoy your time with your families. And when it’s time to go back to work, I hope you put everything you’ve got into it. We can’t afford to be lazy anymore.
My New Year’s resolution is to stop taking my life for granted; stop wasting time with childish things, start spending the time with my daughter that she deserves, and to start making way for her future, by correcting mine.
To the troops overseas, and at home training and such, God bless you all, and Happy New Year.
“Everybody Fights, Nobody Quits!”
