RIDE 'EM COWBOY!!!

Ride 'em cowboy!!!!!

You stand on the threshold of a "brand new year." There appear to be many choices ahead, times pregnant with possibilities....

This is illusory. You have no choice as to whether you progress into the next moment or not- that lies within the realm of the "random." The continuity of moments that are threaded like pearls on a string is debatable- time may be merely the projection of our own minds trying to make sense of this Universe of apparent entropy.

However, you do have the choice as to whether you are dragged over that threshold kicking and screaming or whether you are "carried" over the threshold like a new bride, filled with anticipation about her life ahead.

Anticipation and dread are two powerful faces of the same coin. Transmute dread into anticipation and you transform anxiety into quiet conviction.

Reality is often more like a horse kicking us in the teeth rather than a session in a saloon where a toss of the coin can affect circumstances. Grab hold of that horse and move with it whether you feel that you are in control or not. I am mixing metaphors now, but the Wild West feels like an apt setting for our showdown with life as we perceive it. 

You need to be a winner in this duel and yet you cannot be your own opponent. Shooting your own image in the mirror would clearly be a futile exercise and yet you do this as you punish yourself every day. Your duel is with your own self-sabotage mechanism that masquerades as the "doubting Thomas" of the inner chatter that you subject yourself to as you participate in the screenplay of your life.

Saddle up your horses cowboys and cowgirls, we ride at dawn. A new sunrise beckons. For now, let's set up camp and prepare for tomorrow rather than ride into the sunset.