HAPPY NEW YEAR, 2021!
As we step into the new year with part hope and part apprehension, we — at Soul Chocolate — extend our warmest greetings to all our readers. Our heartfelt thanks to all of you for staying with us as we hesitantly took our baby steps forward through 2020. Just a reminder that we turn one in three days, on January 4.
Here is a little nugget attributed to the well-known author, Neil Gaiman, that rings the perfect note for the new year. It has been circulating widely on social media.
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.
Happy new year, again!