As New Year's approaches and we're in the void that I discussed a couple of days ago, I am using this time to reflect on the year that's been - the ups, downs, and all arounds. It's time to review, revise, regroup, and plan ahead. I think during this period, it's easy to be lost in time, and it can become difficult to think, at all, for me this is the case anyway. Although this afternoon I chose to sit down and wrote out some of my goals for 2024 - personal and family.

To be honest, over the past few days, even a few weeks, I've been in a period where I'm really having to work to complete my blog every day. I think, in a way, after I completed the month of philosophers, in which I reviewed, evaluated, and discussed various different philosophers and their perspective on life, I was trapped in a some sort of a pure state of learning. Afterwards, I struggled to release my mind back into my own perception of happiness and the various contributing factors that I see, hear, and feel.

Learning and evaluating our lives on a daily basis is important for our growth. Dissecting the perspectives of recognized ideologies from different people, cultures, and religions from the past is imperative for building our own future. However, it is a double-edged sword. The ability to learn creates a baseline of understanding, potentially based on the thoughts, concepts, and ideas of others. This can jeopardize or potentially alter our own truth.

On the other hand, failure to learn about other perspectives may hinder your potential to attain your highest self, and miss out on opportunities, lessons, and learnings that could help develop yourself. Either way, there are pros and cons, both of which must be approached with caution. Because at the end of the day, it is your truth, your uniqueness, your most authentic self that is most beneficial to you, those closest to you, and the world around us.

During this period, when the universal energy is high, another rotation around the sun is almost complete and we continue to evolve as a species. It's a time to be, a time to see, and a time to simply embrace the moment, whatever moment that may be, and enjoy every part of it. Because no matter where we are, what we're doing, or who we are sharing it with, it's a moment to share in a universal experience in which our world, the essence of our everything, has completed a tiny, yet beautifully significant moment in our history, and history itself. Embracing this is a significant and profound contributing factor in our search for happiness.

Thanks,

Dean