I'm going for the Happy New Decade.
The more I look back, the more I see that the first decade of the 2000nd was turbulent. The 2010 decade holds great promises if we get down to it. While there are no crystal balls to predict the future, in the end I feel the most important thing is to reconnect with that divinity within. The rest is secondary and you can make the best of it on this journey through life.
So Happy New Decade!
Well, what a ride it has been.
Happy New Year everyone and hope this new year brings you the personal success you desire, as well as health and happiness.
Not only is it a new year, but we are ushering a new decade. Looking back upon the past decade, we can see it was a turbulent one. 2000 was reeling in from the .com crash, 2001 saw terror attacks and the rest saw an economic system so stretched it collapsed the last two years. All in all, it felt as the end of a cycle and hopefully for this decade, the beginning of a new one.
What I am taking away from this transition is that in we have seen individuals, startups and small company fared better than giant corporations and rise to the occasion. Much as we stopped making giant supertankers that crossed the waters of the globe in the 70's, I feel we are beginning to go back to trusting our local small company and turn away from the big, faceless corporations. With the coverage I have been doing on electric cars these past two years, I have found a glimmer of hope that the "recovery", whatever that means will not happen by giving away trillions of our tax money to ill-managed mega-corporations but in and with small companies that are not only actively seeking the solution we would like to see, but as many have already demonstrated have working prototypes. One question we should dearly ask ourselves is what do we mean by an economic recovery? Was the system so great that we want to go back to it? If it was so great, how come it collapsed?
Most likely my first electric car will be one of mine converted by a local expert. My first real new electric vehicle, EV will probably be a Tesla or something from a small new vendor. Not all big companies are clueless, Nissan and Ford have shown great insight and have steered away from the crash.
All in all, this decade looks as if it could finally bring back what has made this country great in the past, hard work, elbow oil, imagination and the desire to find practical solutions to the what we need now. This is something big corporations have not been able to do in the past as they used their energy to create a fake demand that forced people into a buying frenzy. This is just unsustainable.
So here is to 2010 and a new decade where we come back to our sense, keep in mind the essential, work towards understanding ourselves better and controlling our monkey minds.
Happy New Year everyone…