The coming new year...

What's inside the coming new year? What will develop? What is to come?

The future sometimes seems like the destination of a roaring freight train: as long as the train stays on its tracks, as it most likely will, it is destined to reach its destination.

Then again, sometimes the future appears much less destined.... Sometimes there is simply no clear view of it at all.

The new year, for me, is unclear. It remains a mystery. A box that cannot yet be opened.

But there are those around me whose new years are much more clearly visible. They may've just become engaged, or they are in the middle of a job they've had for years, and will have for many more to come.

The truth is perhaps that life is never really like a train on the tracks, it just looks that way. It looks that way until something completely out of the blue happens that washes away your once perceived reality....