DEAD SHOT

Afriend recently said that if it were not for bad luck, he would have no luck at all in 2012.

Some would like to say that money or luck this year is matumal or mahirap. Add to that the tragedies which hit our kababayans from Habagat, which devastated much of NCR, to Typhoon Pablo where close to a thousand residents in Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental we left either homeless or with missing or dead relatives and it happened just weeks before Christmas.  
It did not help that doomsayers were hovering all over the world saying that the end is near, which I believe made Ol Blue Eyes Frank Sinatra turn in his grave,  and, as predicted, the big doom did not happen. Now, even the prophets of doom are ushering a brand new 2013 in their calendar.

Was it really a bad year? It depends on how you look at things, half empty or half full. Most of the time, we tend to dwell on the bad side, the malas and other negativity, which we tend to attach to the previous year, 2012.

A US General commanding troops in a fierce gun battle once said look back, but do not stare, because you will not see what is ahead, be it a bullet, an escape or a bright future ahead.

We tend to stick and remember the misfortunes but have we ever taken even just a minute to stop, look up and thank God for the other countless blessings in life which we often overlook-our life, our health, our family, our job among other things?

It was once said that the object of new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we have a new soul.

The start of 2013 gives us time to reflect and act, a time to count and thank Him no matter what came our way the previous year. Let us not wait for us be knocked down in life for us to look up.

As I join everybody in praying for a good, blessed year ahead, the words of the Great Albert Einstein, I believe, best sums it all up Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
Happy New Year friends.

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