Auld Lang Syne: A Biographical Examination

 

Auld Lang Syne

John Jankowski

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Some dead Greek guy once noted that “an unexamined life is not worth living,” so perhaps on a day that the media turns introspective, it’s not such a bad idea for us to do the same. But maybe instead of being resolute, it might make more sense for us to take stock; i.e., to review our own personal news, and not so much to notch the pros and cons of another year lived on this planet, but to understand and even underscore how events — in the broadest sense of that word — of the past year may have shaped us. Maybe in doing so, we’ll remember a friend who deserves a phone call, an organization in need of our donation, a chore left undone. Maybe we’ll recall a moment that we’d like to have back, a comment we regret, a hug we didn’t offer. More importantly, I suspect that we’ll realize that all of us are more than what our personal histories seem to make of us — that despite how overpowering fate appears, we have, time and again, willed something that took us off-course; that propelled us into uncharted waters, challenging the person we thought we were the year before.

New Years Reflections

Auld Lang Syne