Stellar year of incredible adventures and milestones
As I write this column, I look back at the stellar year that was 2014, marked with wonderful milestones and incredible adventures.
As I write this column, I look back at the stellar year that was 2014, marked with wonderful milestones and incredible adventures.
It strikes me as paradoxical that some of us can’t seem to wait to cross into the New Year. Life has become hurried enough as it is, why help it yet along? Technology in particular, with the ever-increasing efficiency and wonder it has been inspiring in infrastructure and gadgetry, has so altered the sense of time, especially for a senior like me, a day now feels a mere half of it; and as age slows me progressively, in inverse relation not only to technology but to just about everything else, I’d probably soon enough begin to lose a whole day scarcely realizing it.
The experience of shuttling back and forth from Manila to Ormoc and various parts of Bohol over the last six weeks has given me an even deeper appreciation of the importance of each day, the value of speaking from the heart and leaving nothing unsaid, and the grace of a grateful heart.
Are you ready for the countdown to 2014? Who will uncork your bottle of bubbly? And will you be in tune or off key when you sing “Auld Lang Syne” for the umpteenth time in your life?
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