In the New Year tradition I was all set to write up a summary of the past year. I got all the way up to September when I thought of something I heard a wise man say that month; something that made me stop writing dead in my tracks.
One night last September I attended a speech given by Shimon Peres, the current President of Israel. The Israeli Presidency is largely ceremonial- the Prime Minister holds the real power- but the aging Peres is an important political figure and, besides having occupied virtually every Israeli cabinet post, won a Nobel Peace Prize along with Yitzhak Rabin in 1994.
He was in town for the United Nation’s yearly General Assembly meeting. In between UN sessions he came to NYU to make a speech, during the course of which he remarked: “Don’t look to the past to solve today’s problems. The past is what got us here. The past is a mistake.”
Take from that what you will. For me: 2008, whether good or bad, is done. Don't dwell on it. Here comes 2009.
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