From A Princess on New Year’s Eve

I have decided that from quiet contemplation to dancing like a rock star how you spend your New Year’s Eve really doesn’t matter. That like love and Dick Clark nobody needs to keep records of New Year’s Eve awesomeness. In my mind what really truly matters about New Year’s is taking a moment to reflect on what you learned, who and how you loved and thinking about your next steps. Excellences comes from what you focus on day in and day out.

Over the holidays you might drink a little more, eat a little more and dance a little more but as you easy back into the New Year hopefully your simple daily habits that build beauty into your life return. Today we receive a beautiful Kuwait surprise and found out that we all get an extra day off. So we start back to school on Sunday, instead of Monday. I love these kind of Kuwait surprises.

I feel as if something should be written about the classic New Year’s line, from the song Auld Lang Syne,

Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind ?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and old lang syne ?

People are hard to forget. Wrongs are difficult to let go of but in the end unkind words and unkind thoughts hurt the person that speaks them way more then those spoken about. Living in a Muslim culture I am truly blessed that the stories and ideas of the Muslim faith find their way into my heart. It is amazing to me how living in a Muslim culture makes you a better Christian. One of the stories or hadith’s from the prophet Muhammad is that you should speak a good word or remain silent. I was told that one of the hadith’s is that  before you speak you should ask yourself 3 very important questions:

1. Is what you are going to say the truth?
2. Is what you are going to say kind?
3. Will it hurt someone?

Your thoughts, your choices about these questions should then direct your actions. It takes a strong person to hold their tongue when tempted; thankfully no matter what your faith we have help.

Happy New Year. Peace is with us!