During these hours that anticipate the long waited for, 24 of the 31st, it is as though we project our lifetime moments of one year and try to anticipate what we wish would come true on the following one. Maybe with some uncertainty, but with the faith from who wants to believe, and the positive energy we try to push onto those wishes, on an attempt to make our energy fulfill the magic effect. I am not sure about if and how far this can work, but as per what I have read there seems to be a recently discovered direct relationship between what we really want to happen, the positive strength from our will superimposing everything else, and the course of events connected to that positive way of thinking. I have also read that the future responds to our wishes expressed under many forms, the most energetically we can manage. I have been trying to behave this way in some past moments of my life, and sometimes it looks like things have just gone the right way. When that does not happen, I allow myself the thought that maybe I did not wish it strongly enough.

Leaving metaphysics aside, no matter how deeply I try I cannot synthesize the most significant fact I came across on the past decade, because that is why this is all about at this moment. Then again, maybe I do not even try. Because what may have been determinant to me, could probably be not quite so to whoever is reading this, or for the most knowledgeable social columnists. I keep in mind marking facts, for example and among others, the terrorism and its consequences as we have faced, and the economic phenomena that determined the crash and triggered the World economic crisis to which we associate so many bad experiences minding also the personal ones, crisis that still lasts and seems to be ongoing for some time yet. Crisis that caused such anguish and many bad moments to so many, that broke down hopes and cut short starting career expectations and was the reason for the premature ending of many others,  already close to the end, crisis that created a legion of disillusioned people and gave a sharp expression to that illogical rule of the working world: instead of taking advantage of experiences and professional and personal added knowledge of those getting near their middle age, determines on the other hand that it is a no longer feasible head, which must be put aside as useless, overdue. Also, for those who would let themselves go into the dangerous vertigo of anticipated retirement equal to inactivity, the beginning of the end. So many lifetimes lost in the void without a call to past profitable years.

But the moment does call for anguish, it calls for hope, when each one of us must feel like sharing our best within us, and live each day as serenely as possible, trusting that every following day will keep on bringing small positive things, big ones being the sum of small victories won. A Mao-Tse-Tung sentence still up-to-date,  comes to my mind: A great journey always starts with the first step.