Letter to the Year 2023

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC

AN OPEN LETTER

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Dear 2023,

When we welcomed you a few days ago, we really have no idea what to expect because of the many challenges that we have gone through in the last two years due to COVID-19, so we have nothing else to carry with us other than the hope that everything will turn out to be okay. We know being pessimistic will not help us at this point, so we gladly turn our gaze on the beauty of life and believe in the power of positivity.

As we look back, we realize that we have weathered a lot of personal storms along side the health emergency that affected the world, and for that, we carefully discerned that we have been transformed into a new being, a better version than the person that we were. Not only that we were survivors of the many challenges of the past year, but we have also emerged alive going into the new year, despite some of us suffering from COVID-19 and has been hospitalized under critical care.

In this regard, we are trully grateful for the gift of life.

We look forward for the new year with more than hope, but we carry with us a new dream. We have come into your presence with a changed heart based on what happened to us in the year preceding, and our dreams are now more reflective of the realities of life. Some people call this maturity, especially when someone young has realized a lot of things, and their guiding philosophy has changed.

Maybe that's what happens when we survive a near-death experience, even when we are already old, we also realize a lot of things. Suddenly, our priorities change, and we are no longer contented with where we are currently standing but longing for us to move away from this quagmire. We are stuck because we became complacent of the things that distracted us. The storm came, we understand, to clear our paths and not to destroy us.

This may now come in the form of new year's resolutions that actually never work for the majority of us, but at least we have made this effort to welcome you, the year 2023, ceremoniously and with the right perspective. Probably the motivation to change will lose its fire in the middle of the year, vanishing as fast as we have made our new year's resolutions, so we are writing this letter for you to remind us.

Please remind us to love our family, to remain loyal to our friends, to do good to all, and to make responsible choices. May this year's experiences guide us in the many paths of life as we struggle with fulfilling these silly resolutions with greater resolve other than the obligation to the bandwagon, and into a more serious matter that requires a question to be answered.

We know life happens spontaneously and without warning, and so we are also writing this letter to tell you that we are looking forward for more memories to make this year. We wanted to ask for your permission to remind us about the beauty of life and to explore new places we've never been before, hopefully in as far as our vacation leaves and the consent of our good bosses can take us.

But no matter what happens, this is our life that we are completely responsible for, and we just wanted to take this most proximate opportunity to thank you for this new year's worth of journey, and for your involuntary company as we make this travel together. Please be kind to all of us, and may time allow us to appreciate everything that we see as a matter of perspective.

Thank you, dear friend. And if not asking too much, please give us all luck in the days to come.

Best regards,

ALL OF US

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