I will be an optimist about this new year.I won’t be making sure the year leaves, because the New Year isn’t any end or a beginning – it’s a continuation of life, and maybe some consider it as a new volume in life’s novel.Surely this day brings opportunities our way, but I say that most of us use the chance in a wrong manner. We recall our past, our failures, our losses, and I do not say to ever forget the past!However, dear friends, I say to never forget the past so it can shape your future. I mean to keep on trying. I mean, to seek potential. I want you all for once, instead of recalling the year 2014, the great losses, tragic events… I want you instead to think about your achievements, your goals, your future plans.I do not make New Year Resolutions, nor do I ask anyone to. Because once you make a to-do list, the thing is, you either misplace it, or forget all about it, or even procrastinate for it. That is wrong!Instead, why can’t we just wake up every day, and take the new day to be a new opportunity, a new chance, to discover, learn, and makenew mistakes? Why can’t we set goals for just that day? That is much less work than planning the whole year ahead...Why, why, do we just stick on to our past year's failures and losses, and stay in the darkness for God knows yet another year and another? Live for today, because yesterday is over, tomorrow is yet to come, but today is the present!It is today which will form tomorrow, and tomorrow which will form the future!We count down the time for 12 AM to occur, yet, do we count down the time, the seconds to be precise, which take fellow humans lives?Do we count how many seconds our fire brigades and ambulances are late, and how some could be alive if that time had just been elongated?And how about the time, which it takes for a terrorist to bring disaster, to threaten education, to kidnap our girls, to silence innocence and humanity?I swear, if we start counting these seconds, minutes, hours, days, years, decades maybe, we would all not be partying but instead working over-time to prevent all this.Are we too late? Are we doomed as well?We could not be, or else, we wouldn't be casting 2014 off, and welcoming 2015.Yes! We still have the time. Humanity, yes all of us, has the potential to become a force which can shake the world.So, why not fight for rights, instead of being silent?Why not seek education, learn from our mistakes, instead of regretting and backing off by fear?Why not promote research for Ebola, for all the diseases which are diminishing our potential?Why not, just start, instead of thinking its too late, or when to begin?This is the way to start a New Year, my fellows.We are human for human, soul for soul. We can’t be happy if someone else in the world suffers. We can’t be that ignorant, or can we?I end all of my questions for now, and pray to Lord that we all can unite under no geographical or race border. I pray that we unite under the banner of humanity. I pray that Lord guides us to do whatwe can, and gives us the potential to accept what we can’t. I pray that we stay strong without those who have left us, because they are also right with us, May They Rest in Peace. I pray, that we do everything right so that the ones who will come after us will have good idols. I pray, for health, strength, and wisdom to attain all this.I hope that for once, tonight, we promise to do our best this year. To revive from the ignorance and laziness spells we are dazed in. That we work, not for the productiveness and success for a specificcountry or area, or for personal benefits – but for the success of humanity.Thank you.