Here are my hopes and wishes for you in the next year (2011).
I hope in the coming year, you will steal more. Steal more time for yourself to reflect, pause and try to understand why you are here, and what makes you happy.
I hope in the coming year, you will break some rules. Break the norms set by others, the society, the mobs or the lizard brain who tell what you should do and should not. Follow your inner conscience. May this be your moral compass.
I hope in the coming year, you will pick a few fights. Fight against “small” injustices that you see around everyday (maybe on your way to work). Fight to enforce that nagging traffic rule violations perhaps (in your city).
I hope in the coming year, you will contemplate death regularly. To accept every day that you are eventually going to die, makes you realize what your true priorities in life are. What would you do, if you only had a week more?
I hope in the coming year, you will be garlanded with shoes or hit with tomatoes. Dare to do something disruptive, that scares the people who cling to status quo or to dogma. Let them humiliate you since they are