In the blink of an eye, 2024 was here!
Looking back on 2023, all the joy and happiness, worries and sorrows, love and lack of love, no matter how hard they were to let go of, would drift away little by little.
Looking ahead to 2024, the joy and happiness, delight, anger, sorrow, and pleasure yet to come would also draw closer little by little.
That was time. That was the passage of years.
She would never slow her steps for anyone, never pause for anyone even for a moment, and never hold on to anything at all!
That was life, too!
Whatever difficulties, setbacks, beauty, and happiness the past year had held, they would all become a flower blooming in time.
Whether lovely blossoms or bristling thorns, they could only be gazed upon, no longer reached or changed.
That flower would bloom quietly in time, becoming a touch of color along life's path.
This was neither loss nor farewell, but the serenity that came after having once held something dear.
It gave us greater strength to face tomorrow.
No matter how unknown or rugged the future might be, or how beautiful and happy.
Those flowers blooming in time would adorn you in the truest way, letting you remain unshaken by favor or disgrace and calmly accept everything the future brought.
Live the way you want to live.
Yet the future always gave us so much to look forward to.
And so, on the first day of the new year, the wishes we made brimmed with boundless hope and possibility.
Words of blessing became all the more meaningful, too.
My dear friends, may beauty be by your side every day of the new year, and may happiness, peace, and good health be yours each day.
May everything you cherish, imagine,