New Year’s Resolution: Love

“To love would be an awfully big adventure.”

~J.M Barrie

My daughter has a thing about the Mayan calendar problem. You know the one where people say the Mayan calendar runs out in 2012, signalling an apocalypse and the end of the world?  This morning, as my cats were tearing around the house, sounding like an apocalypse, at 4:30 a.m. I got to thinking, if I could make only one resolution, to make my one year left to live truly worthwhile, what would it be?

I had to concede that I would likely continue to do many of the things that I am already doing. I would work because I love my work and it pays the bills. I would finish this estrangement book, and I would still want to see it launched into the world. I would go to the gym, do yoga and meditate – because well, they feel good! I’m not feeling the need to burden myself with more items on my “to-do list”. So what would be the one thing I could genuinely commit to do, that could really make a difference? What is the one thing that would make this year, the supposed last year ever, truly magnificant and worth living?

Love

I decided love would make the difference. If I had only a year, I would spend that year (more) fiercely loving the people I have in my life. I would spend the year (more) fiercely loving myself. I don’t think we are in any danger of an apocalypse. I don’t think 2011 will be our last year. I do think, love is a worthy resolution; so this year, I’m making it mine.

If we made only one resolution, to love ourselves and our loved ones, fiercely, 2011 would be a most worthy year; a year to be remembered, don’t you think?