Make It So

I spent a part of last night in the company of some splendidly pregnant women, one of them already a week over-due. A seat opened up on the couch beside one of them and I sat down beside her to drink in the serenity of someone about to give birth. She placidly rested her hands atop her belly and smiled widely at the room, enjoying the company of friends and celebrating the arrival of a new year and all the while she exuded a aura of beautiful calm and tranquility that was tangible at such close range.

Expectation is a powerful force in shaping our perceptions, willing, as it were, the world to conform to our hopes and fears and seeing these changes reflected in our own psyche. Our willingness to interpret our sensations to find accord with our hopes and fears is a powerful determinate that can have a profound significance in our day to day lives. Today I expect to be happy and that alone might be enough to carry me over the rough road I will traverse to tomorrow. To be on the cusp between expectation and revelation, a woman a week over-due, is to have your hands on the controls, steering a course towards fulfilling prophecy, and that surety is contagious.

Now, more than ever, I can say the words with a reverence for the power of the wish, knowing that believing them is all that you need to make it come true. And so I would like to wish all of you a Happy New Year.