My New Year Wish

Because Neil says it much better than I can...

Originally posted by officialgaiman at My New Year Wish

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2011/12/my-new-year-wish.html

posted by Neil

A decade ago, I wrote:

May your coming year befilled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read somefine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don'tforget to makesome art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can.And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

And almost half a decade ago I said,

...I hope you will havea wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously,that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, thatyou will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will havepeople to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (becauseI think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the worldright now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that youwill always be kind.

And for this year, mywish for each of us is small and very simple.

And it's this.

I hope that in this yearto come, you make mistakes.

Because if you are makingmistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things,learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing yourworld. You're doing things you've never done before, and moreimportantly, you're Doing Something.

So that's my wish for you,and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Makeglorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worrythat it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art,or love, or work or family or life.

Whatever it is you'rescared of doing, Do it.

Make your mistakes, nextyear and forever.

Labels:  Happy New Year