No, I am not going mad. It is Thai New Year, otherwise known as Songkran, the famous Thai water festival. Thailand is the only country, I have known, that has three New Years - 1st January, Chinese New Year and then its own lunar version. The best of all New Years here is the third and final one, with mass and open water fights on the streets. People just love it.
The key meaning of this time, beyond all the mass hysteria, good fun and wet bodies, is for people to clean up their lives and make a new beginning. New beginnings entail moving on, which is an essential ingredient to re-energizing life and living it with an ongoing keen sense of purpose and enthusiasm.
Life is about so much more than we so often appreciate or the little matters we get stuck in. Our worlds can be narrow. Our interests can become dull. We are best not to cling to present ruts, past glories or known comforts. Rather, we are best to keep giving life a new push, another kick and move on to keep making our mark on this world, which so needs any and every amount of good any of us can offer.
What we do in life and with our life matters. It matters to us, it matters to humanity. Such is the nature of human connectedness. Happy New Year!
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