Many Filipinos consider New Year’s
Day as an important holiday in the Philippines. This sets the start of a new
year in the Gregorian calendar, which is used in many countries including the
Philippines. New Year's Day is always observed on January 1, the first day of
the year on the modern Gregorian calendar as well as the Julian calendar used
in ancient Rome. With most countries using the Gregorian calendar as their main
calendar, New Year's Day is the closest thing to being the world's only truly
global public holiday, often celebrated with fireworks at the stroke of
midnight as the new year starts. Celebrations such as church services,
family meals etc. are held world-wide on January 1 as part of New Year's Day.
Many celebrations start the day before (on New Year's Eve) and go on past
midnight into January 1.
Every Filipino Citizens here in the
Philippines celebrate their New Year’s Eve at home with their family, and sometimes
they been also celebrating in their work place with their officemates, or
workmates. Did you know that every year, we always having quirky new year traditions
and superstitions like wearing polka dots dress, jumping high when the clock
strikes 12, Having a variety of round fruits, eating pancit (noodles) for long
life and fortune, throw up coins around the house, make loud noise to drive
away evil spirits, Eat a native delicacy made
from sticky rice to make good fortune stick in the new year like tikoy and all
types of kakanin, Having New Year’s Eve Mass, Having a media noche, and
Having New Year’s Resolutions.
Every day of your life is a new beginning,
not just the first day of the year. You can make Daily Resolutions, not just
New Year Resolutions. Any day is suitable for making them. Regard every day as
the beginning of your new, better, and happier life. Start every day of the
year with feelings of happiness and with the anticipation that great and
wonderful things are going to happen.
Regardless of your circumstances, begin every
day of the year with a smile, hope and expectations. You are not cheating
yourself, because this attitude, if you persevere with it, would make you a
more positive and happy person. Every day, restate your goals and your
decisions for your new, happy and successful life. At the same time, be open to
new ideas and opportunities, and for ways to achieve your goals. If you look at each
day as new beginning, you will feel happier, more energetic and more motivated.
Often, people make New Year Resolutions,
but either do nothing to carry them out, or start and then quit. This creates
feelings of frustration, unhappiness and failure.
You
don’t have just one opportunity to carry out a decision or achieve a goal. If
you failed to carry them out, you don’t need to wait for the beginning of the
next year. You can make a new resolution every day, and you can start again
every day, if you failed in your first, second or even third attempt.
There
are no limitations on making new decisions and forming new goals, and there are
no limitations on when to begin doing new things. Every day is suitable for
making a resolution and a new beginning.
I learned that the world isn't a perfect place
full of peace and love... But, it's also not a place of human suffering filled
with hatred and death, it's a place somewhere in between... It is a place with
love and peace, but there is always a raging battle whether it's within
yourself or worldwide, there is always some hatred or suffering somewhere. If
you want something, you have to work for it, and things won't go your way every
time. Don't think of death as the end
of life, think of it as the end of a day where you go home and stay a while.
I am grateful for everything this year.
Grateful for learning, growing, new experiences, my mom and my sisters, my
amazing friends, this beautiful world that I got to explore.
REFERENCES:
Images
No comments:
Post a Comment