By Rose Beatrix C. Angeles (Trixie Cruz-Angeles)
INQUIRER.net
First Posted January 03, 2008
“Mr. E: There are very few stable
futures, boy. The way my father told it to me, the future is a series of
infinitely branching possibilities. When we walk it, we walk down the most
probable paths, those with the greatest likelihood of occurring. But nothing in
the future is definite. Some are periods of great flux — the next hundred years
or so are a wash of conflicting events. Others are relatively stable — so that
almost any path you walk takes you to the same universe.”
- The Books of Magic By Neil
Gaiman
Each New Year, by tradition, is filled with hope. By the grace of God and through the solar calendar, we are given the opportunity to begin anew every twelve months. In the same way that the earth goes through its life cycles of birth, flowering, fertility and death, we are taken along for the ride and are given this small gift of renewal.
True we are not phoenixes. We don’t actually die. But as we are told in
Catholic doctrine, we can be born again in spirit. Interestingly, in Babylon,
the New Year was celebrated around the time of the vernal equinox , To this day
we celebrate it in Christendom as Easter, Pasko ng Bagong Buhay in Filipino,
when we celebrate Christ’s conquest of death, and when we ourselves are renewed
in spirit.
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