The Opening of 2025

2025 Is an Opening 

Here I am in a new year.

Happy 2025! We are starting a new year once again. We could try to ignore the change, but it is all around us in media, festivities, gatherings.  A new year brings so much – emotions, thoughts, fears, hope, resolutions. Change often manifests Openings.

We could play down the new year – it’s just another day. Our society, however, makes a big deal of it. We could call the new year an inevitable Opening, because of the fanfare surrounding New Years Eve and Day.

So, what do we want to do now with this Opening of 2025? Let’s recognize it. We have already entered it. What’s the point in ignoring it? Openings bring opportunity, challenge and movement. We have a chance to start anew. We have made each new year a fresh one and often see this time as brimming with possibility.

Promise

With any new year comes promise. What is the promise of 2025? We are in a time of change, so change is part of its promise. It could be drastic change or limited change, but here in the US, for some, it’s trending towards drastic. There are varying reactions and responses to the change. Reconfiguration of the environment we are in is very possible. All this promises that our lives could be very different by 2026.

We all have a say in the promise of 2025. There’s no roadmap for what will happen. We are facing the unknown. What do we want to create in 2025? What will we commit to? What’s available to us to make the changes we want to? We can direct our energies and focus towards taking advantage of this Opening.

Oprah has a quote about the new year, “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”  That is part of 2025’s promise.  A chance to do something different using skills and wisdom we have gained since the last time we tried. We can re-vision what we want to do. We can widen our vistas. We can expand our view of what is possible.