Contrary to the current trend, I celebrate Christmas and New Year more based on the balance, positive, negative or more or less, of the past year, which can be remembered and measured, rather than on unreasonable, unjustifiable and baseless hopes for the new year.
Having gone through the year in good health since last Christmas, having worked and produced for yourself and your family, having maintained family harmony and an intense and free romantic relationship, having enjoyed great artistic shows, beautiful landscapes, having met new people, having received honors and rewards, having remained alive and lucid, show me an extraordinary year — and the impulse is that of gratitude. To whom? To what? To someone, to a mysterious force, to saints and orixás, to luck and chance, to the conspiracy of the Universe, but the feeling is that I didn’t do it alone.
Of course, I have my merits, I have worked and devoted myself, but I feel that I have been helped by strange forces, perhaps deceased relatives and friends, devout saints, protective and inspiring angels. In any case, it is celebrating and being grateful for Happy 2025, which closes a cycle and gives way to an unfathomable new one.
Yes, I am a minority of the privileged minority, with or without merits, honest or dishonest, which generates an old feeling of Catholic guilt, of responsibility for social inequalities, even after decades of political participation, of support for social actions, this will always have been little. But I will not suffer for my achievements, as the Jesuits who educated me would like, by educating me poorly.
This is a good time to weigh your good deeds, the people you have helped, the movements you have supported, the donations to those who need it, more than the fact of being charitable, of being able to be generous, of giving back a little of what life has given you. This is what fills the heart.
“What will tomorrow be? Answer the one who knows”, asks the classic samba, mediums, clairvoyants, prophets, sensitives and astrologers are called to present the future. Part of it is due to mysterious and uncontrollable forces, the other is a consequence of what was built last year. Taking responsibility is fundamental. There is no need to say that it is the fault of the stars, a characteristic of your astral sign or quadrature.
The end of the year is also conducive to editing memories, people, situations, ideas, archiving them or deleting them, to make room for new memories. Whether on a personal or professional level, those who live in the past are museums: our museums of feelings and professional lives serve to learn, but they do not dictate the romantic or professional relationships of the present.
A good time to say you’ve done your part, in the mirror and not on Instagram, is a good response to wins and losses. Learning from your mistakes without blaming others is a sign of intelligence.
The world is on fire, human stupidity grows uncontrollably, lucidity and reason are obscured, there is no reason to hope for a new year which begins in the ruins of the old one. If it doesn’t get worse, that’s good.
May your old year be worthy of celebration and gratitude this Christmas and New Year.
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