Happy New Moment

January 1 2007. Happy New Year. We have been wishing this for ourselves and for each other for years. It is such a hopeful greeting. Happy. New. Year. With these words, we wish for others new beginnings, better, more and the leaving behind of the old, the useless, the negative, the sad.

Sometime in middle to late January however, we wonder – can I now stop wishing people happy new year? When does the year turn from being new to old? When do we stop giving people this most hopeful greeting? When do we stop giving ourselves? When do we revert to the old – and would that be the “sad, old, year?”.

Truth is that we should never stop greeting ourselves and each other this way. For every moment is new. Every moment is the only moment. Every moment is the only moment that has ever existed, exists or will ever exist. Every moment has within it the possibility of new beginnings, of being a happy new year, of being the best new year. Every moment is a new year.

I wish for you in this moment a new year. And that all your moments are new years – filled with joy, laughter, love, happiness and peace.