Every New Year near Kyoto, there is a tradition to climb the hill to the shrine at Fushimi Inari. It’s a spectacular trip at any time of year, but the main reason people go there at the start of the year is for luck and prosperity.
This is the time of year when you meet people and say “Happy New Year”…….what are you wishing for them? Is it happiness? Luck? Prosperity?
Look at the path in the photo above. See how it winds around the corner……we can’t quite see where it is leading, can we?
That’s where we are, unable to see what lies ahead, but we can certainly choose which direction we want to go, and how we want to walk today……and isn’t that how we find happiness, luck and prosperity?
By choosing the direction we want to go, and by living today the way we really want to live.
Happy New Year. I hope its a year of growing, of flourishing, of becoming more fully you.
Heroes Not Zombies 