Goodbye 2024; hello to 2025!
- Kyle Snyder: Live on Purpose
- December 31, 2024
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“And now we welcome the new year — full of things that have never been.”
—Rainer Maria Rilke
Happy New Year to all. I am writing this in 2024, but you are reading this in 2025. If it has been a bad year for you, it’s over. However, if it was a good year for you, well, it’s still over. No matter how you look at it, the new year is a good thing. The past, no matter how good or bad, is still the past. We can’t go back and fix it. We can only learn and try to do better next time.
In the Bible Paul talked about forgetting what is behind us and pressing on to what is ahead. Likewise, we need to push in our faith, job, relationships, education and in every aspect of our life.
There is a great fear in the unknown, but for me the great fear is what might have been. See, I will say too many people are just happy with not rocking the boat — they never ask why something is the way it has always been. They just go with the flow. Now there is nothing wrong with going with the flow in some things, but sometimes it is right to question conventional wisdom.
As an example, I heard all through high school I needed to go to college and make something of myself. I didn’t go to college until about five years after high school, and even then, I only went for six weeks. I was very depressed after high school because I thought I could not make something out of myself without higher education.
I think instead of guidance counselors pushing every student toward college, they should push for students to keep learning any way they can. I just became a connoisseur of books. Anything that grabbed my attention, I just consumed. In the last few years, I’ve studied psychology.
In the end we only have ourselves to determine if our life will be worth living. One person wants to be a neurosurgeon; the next person wants to be a stay-at-home mom. Both of them are fantastic goals to have, and both of them are pursuing something truly noble.
No one has the right to tell us what we are dreaming is impossible. It might be improbable, but only God almighty has the right to decide what is impossible.
In this next year, don’t just dream, but dream big!