2012 where did you go and 2013 where will we go?

More often than not you can find me hollaring, "Hurry up! Lets Go!  and Get a Move On!" However, sometimes it is good to stop, take a moment to reflect and then Hurry Up! This is one of those times. As I sit wondering where 2012 went and how on earth we are 1/4 the way through 2013 I realize that my parents were right when they said the older you get the faster time flies.

2012, it was a rough year for many and it was a great year for some. Although jobs seemed to be on the increase, so were fuel prices. We saw a twister rip through Texas. A meteor actually hit the earth. Not like in my youth where we were just warned that a meteor would pass closer to earth than ever before, it actually HIT! The West Nile came back. I personally was unaware that it went anywhere. New pyramids were discovered and how they have hidden for so long is beyond me. We as a nation considered banning the Super Gulp and all "large" sodas. The only word I have for this is ludacrous. Does anyone remember prohibition. You'd find people making their own 64 ounce containers in their basements or carrying around two liter soda bottle and simply putting a straw in them. And certainly none of us can forget our yahoo accounts were hacked...I've already forgotten. The ice caps melted reaching a record low. For those of you that have no idea what significance this has on our, world listen up. Ice caps melting means oceans rising. Oceans rising means less land and unless you are a pretty avid swimmer or really like to live in the mountains, we would appreciate the oceans staying where they belong. Now, there is no need to go and start building your ark. We are talking hundreds of thousands of years before serious ark building action needs to be taken. No need to worry about those ice caps, because we had the Olympics to prepare for. It always amazes me how so many nations can come together and compete with such sincerity and respect for one another, but our national leaders can't spend twenty minutes in a room together without an argument. We celebrated, Facebooked, tweeted, blogged and hollered to anyone who would listen to all of our very important 2012 news; often times not very important at all. And can we forget the end of the world. You remember right? The Mayans...someone really dropped the ball in that civilization. They stop writing their calendar and the rest of us start planning for the end of the world. And although the world did not end for all of us; in Newtown, CT the world stopped turning for many. A tiny town known to very few before December 14th. No one could imagine the pain and grief we were all about to feel as a nation. Our little ones snatched from us like a thief in the night. We stood as a nation, moms and dads and grieved for each parent that wouldn't have their little ones home for Christmas. We saw in our schools actual super heros. We found people to look up to and to honor. We were devastated, we were changed, we were grateful for what we had and for who we still have. We walked out of 2012 and looked to the edge of the fiscal cliff. We made it! We survived! We set new resolutions. Some of us called them goals, some of us refused to make them and those of us who did may have found ourselves already forgetting what they were.

How will you write your 2013? What will your top news stories be this year? I for one want to write an adventure. Goals reached. Bucket list check offs. I want to be great! Now lets go. Here is my challenge. Have you set a new year resolution that you didn't keep? Are you waiting for something to happen for you start making a change. Let's each of us set a new goal. Write it down and then write the first step you will take toward reaching it. Maybe it's something easy like reading a new book. And maybe it's something more difficult like going back to school. Either way lets take one step toward better.