A prayer, of sorts, for 2015

[alephz]

A new year has a kind of spiritual-cultural significance, less a real thing in the sense of touching, but a feeling that surges through sections of the morphomemetic field (like the morphogenetic field, only not quite so broad) at different times in different cultures, depending on what part of the year seemed a good place to start it.

I have many resolutions for this event, ways in which I will evolve my self-idea into something I consider to be generally more useful and otherwise moving toward the things I would like to be, but I would only put forth this wish and this challenge to everyone else.

Let us be kinder to one another.

Let us see more of ourselves in others.

Let us love one another better.

Let us hope harder.

Let us be louder in the defense of others.

Let us see how we fail our highest morals.

Let us change ourselves to better achieve them.

Let us dream large and find the small things we can do to get us where we want to be.

Let us cast off habits and systems which do none of these things.

Let us be better now than we have ever been before.

There may be other chances.

But they will be easier to take later if we take this one now.