This was my first New Year’s Eve in Mexico.
I lay in bed thinking about the coming year and what I hoped to accomplish. I could hear the activity outside our 2nd floor bedroom as the neighbors were starting their parties.
The super-loud bottle rockets started about 10:30 p.m. and went off about every 20 minutes from different locations in our neighborhood.
I stayed awake becoming more frustrated as the early morning hours progressed until something happened. I could hear a child’s voice from the neighbor across. She had begun to read as loudly as she could, and it was obvious that she had just learned to read and was delighting in that fact. She read non-stop through all the chaos. Nothing could prevent her from reaching her goal.
With this I stopped being frustrated at the fact that I couldn’t sleep, and embraced this little girl’s determination and enthusiasm for the New Year.
Some quotes on Chaos:
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
Buddha
Buddha
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of chaos.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
I have a great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.
Septima Poinsette Clark
Septima Poinsette Clark
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Take care.
Katelen
lol. I'm not too sure of that! I should be a philosopher queen then, given the chaos in my skull.
nice painting!