Should old acquaintances actually be forgot with a new year? Yes … 100% yes! Is it easy and are they really forgotten? No and nope.
If you can recall the 2004 movie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, you’ll remember how hard and painful it was because it shows true growth that we all share in matters of the heart. Just like your muscles ache when you’re working out, your heart and mind can have the same pain.
The movie’s lead character, Joel Barish, is a heartbroken man aching for his girlfriend Clementine as she is undergoing a procedure to erase all memories she had with him in their tumultuous relationship.
I believe the saddest part of the movie is the idea of erasing someone. Sure we’d love to forget the bad things from our past relationships with partners and even friendships but erasing them changed the impact on your life. Because regardless to popular belief, all impacts are good, it’s just a matter of finding the lesson when we don’t have the life experience we were hoping for.
Growth is painful and joyful. The scales of life keep it balanced when we search for beauty instead of pain.
My wish for you: In the spirit of the first month of the new year, I hope that you’ll keep the impacts from others and allow the scars to transform into a muted shade that you’re learning from.
Throw some glitter by killing them with kindness and get it moving. Death by glitter is better than death by resentment and spite.
We don’t have as much time as we fool ourselves to believe. The sands of time in your hourglass can stop at any given moment. Live as though today is the last day of your life and forget the notion of erasing and realize it’s all about building.
– Updated Auld Lang Syne Lyrics –
Should old acquaintances be forgotten,
And never brought to mind?
Should old acquaintances be forgotten,
And days of long ago!
For times gone by, my dear
For times gone by,
We will take a cup of kindness yet
For times gone by.
We two have run about the hillsides
And pulled the daisies fine,
But we have wandered many a weary foot
For times gone by.
We two have paddled (waded) in the stream
From noon until dinner time,
But seas between us broad have roared
Since times gone by.
And there is a hand, my trusty friend,
And give us a hand of yours,
And we will take a goodwill drink (of ale)
For times gone by!
And surely you will pay for your pint,
And surely I will pay for mine!
And we will take a cup of kindness yet
For times gone by!
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