Sunday, January 1, 2012

Neil Gaiman's NY Wish

Please tell me what it is I have to do to have a tenth of his talent, to find the right words and the right sequence of words to phrase these thoughts cobwebbing in my mind. 

These are beautiful New Year wishes. If I could light up the sky with lanterns, then I would place these wishes unto the lanterns and watch these beautiful dreams and aspirations soar.  


A Decade Ago
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

Almost a Decade Ago
I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.


FOR 2012
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.
So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. 
Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life. Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.


ANJ's thought bubble:  And don't forget to own up to the mistakes that you so gloriously made. :)

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