Let the present into your life
May our community unite in today, may we embrace one another and make the best of every day.
As we all slow down to take a breather and most probably also taking time to do some reflection on the past year – most of us will most certainly say: “Wow! What a year!” Fast paced, forever up and down, getting it from everywhere and sometimes, you might have just felt swamped by things totally out of your control impacting on your lives.
Bombarded by ever increasing prices, Eskom not giving a damn about power-cuts and the influence it has on our beautiful country a second thought – just because they can … crime, road rage …. all of these negatives getting you down.
My wish for our readers is, as we exit this year, is that when you do take that quiet time to reflect, to not ponder the bad, the ugly and the negative. But to make a positive choice and to decide to keep on track and to get yourself to a place where you can look back and say: “I am on the right track, because I am really not interested in looking back at the negatives.”
I hope that we can all find it in ourselves to make the choice to remember the good about the year past, new and old friendships, a kind gesture, an unexpected smile which lifted your day… take the time to remember that when the winds came blowing, and you then chose to bend a bit, that you became stronger in new places…
My wish is that our people will wave this year farewell with a positive mind, stepping into the new year having the present on their minds. And in doing so, that you will remember the wise words of Albert Camus: “Real generosity towards the future consists in giving all to what is present.” May we all realise that although it is difficult to live in the present, it is utterly ridiculous to live in the past and most definitely impossible to live in an ever changing future.
Seize every moment of every day. Make sure that your days and actions are accounted for by sharing, loving, giving, laughter and reaching out. Our community’s survival is not in the future. It lies within what each of us do in the present to form and shape tomorrows still to come; it lies within those things we teach our children today to equip them for tomorrow, it lies within small actions today ensuring that somebody else will look forward to a tomorrow.
May our community unite in today, may we embrace one another and make the best of every day.
I say goodbye to our community as we close for this year. Thanking each and every one of you for your support throughout the year. With this I also wish to share a thought to those who will not close doors over the festive season – those who will be keeping us safe, those who will attend to the sick, the elderly and frail, those behind counters serving us as we enjoy our break … May you all have a wonderful and safe festive season.
May God bless our community.
Carina van der Walt
Editor
