New year & new me

         The time of the year has come where each individual starts to focus on the things that is important to their lives. For me personally, a new year always represents a new me and a new fresh start to a year. I like to believe that each year is a new chapter and a new chance to become a better person in the hopes of progressing. Happiness to me is one of the most important things in life. I generally believe that in this hectic financial era we live in, people tend to brush away the little things that puts a smile on our faces. Life is taken too seriously and we forget about what truly makes us happy.
        Society has the magnetic force of making us conform to what society portrays as "normal' i.e, having a 9-5 full time job and taking breaks here and there. Not to be misunderstood, this might make an individual feel happy because they feel a sense of security from the money that is given to them, but I have read articles and even in our own school books where in Japan it is frankly quiet normal to see employees commit suicide from the stress they endure. Sadly, not many people can grasp the fact that there is actually more to life than work. Tranquility does exist and maybe just maybe one day society can take this fact into account and place it somewhere in between the lines.

Tranquility