good morning, twenty ten

Fresh starts. Thanks to the calendar, they happen every year.
Just set your watch to January.
Put your past behind you and start over.
It’s hard to resist the chance of a new beginning. A chance to put the problems of last year to bed.
Who gets to determine when the old ends and the new begins?
It’s not a day on a calendar. Not a birthday, not a new year.
It’s an event, big or small, something that changes us. Ideally it gives us hope.
A new way of living and looking at the world.
Letting go of old habits, old memories.
What’s important is that we never stop believing that we can have a new beginning.
But it’s also important to remember that amid all the crap are a few things really worth holding on to.
(From Grey's Anatomy)