Happy Holidays - Happy New Year

It's that time of year we all love and hate.  We love getting time off from work.  We love giving and getting presents.  We love seeing friends and family.  We love seeing other people happy.  We love seeing houses and buildings decorated with holiday lights.  We love the parties and the food.  We love the thought that the New Year will be better than the current year.  We just love the entire experience.

We hate the crowds pushing and shoving in the stores.  We hate the holiday car drivers.  We hate seeing people so poor they can't enjoy the holidays.  We hate listening to people tell of the new year resolutions they will never complete.  We hate the negative energy people who are ba-humbug about the holidays.  We hate the negative energy people who don't believe the New Year will be better than the last.

Happiness IS the forgotten ingredient in life.  If there is ever a time to find happiness in your life, the holidays and the New Year is it.  This is the time to enjoy all you've gotten.  This is the time to enjoy all you've given.  This is the time to enjoy everything that is about to happen.  This is the time to feel good about the New Year.

This happiness can only happen if you decide to make it happen.  That's right, you can decide to make the holidays and the New Year a happy time or a sad time.  You can be positive about all the things you love about the holidays.  You can also be positive about all the things you hate about the holidays.

It's up to you to ignore the pushing crowds, the bad drivers and the annoying negative energy people who don't like the holidays and believe the New Year will not be a happy one. 

The one thing we should not ignore is the poor people who can't enjoy the holidays and the New Year the way we can.  We can give something back to those people.  We can remind ourselves how lucky we are and all we have.  We can:

MAKE THE HOLIDAYS AND THE NEW YEAR THE BEST TIME OF OUR LIVES!