New Year's Eve Review.

Today is the 1st of January 2015 which means that last night millions, possibly even billions of people either went to new year's eve celebrations or streamed different places like Sydney or New York ringing in the new year on their lap tops or iPads. 

There was a common theme I noticed on both Facebook and Twitter prior to the commencement of the celebrations.  People kept on posting that they were glad to see the back of 2014 and that they had horrible years.  The chances are your year wasn't perfect.  I doubt that anybody's year actually was perfect, but instead of being glad to see the back of the year and focusing on the negative why not focus on the positive and what you did achieve in 2014?  I'm sure the year wasn't a total bust for everyone and that there are some things you are thankful for that happened in 2014.

My 2014 wasn't perfect but it was a damn sight better than 2013.  That was one year I was glad to see the back of.  You see, once you've had a truly awful year nothing can actually compare to that.  The years following on from that will always seem better and there will be things that you achieved.  Even though 2013 was a bad year for me I still achieved some things.  Moving back to Sydney was one of those.  Reaching a career goal, even though it didn't look how I thought it would is another.

I didn't attend the Sydney fireworks this year because I was too late to organise things with friends and that's okay.  It's okay to have a quiet new year's eve once in a while.  I know that next year's new year's eve will be a lot better and I'll be planning something a couple of months in advance to ensure it's not like this year.  I'm already thinking that Milson's Point might be a cool place to watch the fireworks from with the backdrop of the Sydney skyline, the opera house and the harbour bridge in the distance.

Anyway, most of the articles I read after new year's said that it was a total bust and a disappointment.  I think that new years is only as good as you make it and thinking that it's a total bust is wrong.  Sure, you may have felt that way but shouldn't you be asking WHY you were disappointed with new year's?  Was is that you didn't spend it where or with whom you wanted to?  Was it that you focused on what you didn't achieve in 2014?  Or was it that you focused on what you lost in 2014?  There's always a reason to be disappointed with the overall new year's celebrations but the celebrations aren't to blame for you feeling that way.  You are.

As I watched the build up to the New York ball dropping earlier today I noticed one distinct theme.  The majority of people questioned by the presenters said they weren't happy with 2014 and things hadn't panned out the way they wanted.  What actions did those people take to get what they truly wanted though?  What steps did they take to progress in their lives?  Did they just expect things to happen out of the blue without them taking any action?  Life doesn't just happen by sitting back.  You actually have to go after what you want.

The New York coverage had depressing music like Imagine and other music with depressing lyrics.  I'm not saying people have to be happy all the time.  As some people have said to me, that would be fake, but why not focus on the positive and changing what you can change?  It just seemed rather silly to have these new year's celebrations with depressing music and a focus on the negative rather than the positive.

In 2015 everyone should make one resolution and one resolution only, to make the best of your circumstances and if you don't like them to work towards improving them and changing what you don't like about your life.  And I know that come December 31 2015 I'm going to ring in 2016 like never before.