Happy New Year! "New year, new you," is the common saying to describe that it is a new beginning for people... Or those who see the new year as an opportunity, including myself. Society views the New Year to reflect on what is important to us. In our world, it is so easy to get caught up in materialistic things, to the point that we can not find ourselves anymore. That is why on New Year's Day and for the following two weeks people eat healthy, go to the gym, and get a new look. It is a time to see what is truly important to us, and the things that we should not worry about too much. I like looking back and reflecting about the past year, seeing how far I have come, the things I did, the things I wish I did not. I use this as a starting point for my new year. I realize what I can, can not and should, should not do.
Personally, 2014 was a growing and changing year. I became more driven about my future, more mature, and more professional. I also had a love life (haha) and remained close to my family and friends. But if I look closely at everything I did, I truly did everything. From being in the musical and a field hockey clinic in early spring, to organizing conditioning practices, to summer vacations, college visits, volunteering at Longwood, working, summer work, spending time with friends and family, to field hockey, more college visits, school in the fall, to chorus competitions, applications, Masquerade Ball and Cinderellla in the winter, the year was continuous and never ending. However I liked it. But at the same time, I spread myself too thin; I didnt have the effort --I could make the three hour break in between work and practices, to give enough attention to my friends and especially my boyfriend. By no means would I devote my entire life to my boyfriend, but I found I need to not spread myself too thin, and have the effort to enjoy the little things that made me happy.
"There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift a drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the takings of toast and tea," says Prufrock in his Lovesong. He expresses that there's so much time, yet we do not have time for the simplest things. He talking about society as a whole here, and how he is trapped within it. Prufrock's love song needs a New Year to understand what is really important. They need to see that with all the time they have to make time for the little things. Often people think they have a lot of time on their hands, so they add something to their schedule. However then they miss dinner with the family, which is how I took this passage of the Lovesong. New Years is a time to really reflect on what is important, so make that resolution count and make time for the "takings of toast and tea."
