Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.
Henry David Thoreau

Eat less rubbish, sleep more, spend more time with family and friends, loose weight, exercise – my new year seems to have started where the old year did 12 months ago. Sounds familiar?

We should call these Old Year’s resolutions.

So, what are my New Year’s resolutions?

The two pictures above capture them pretty well.

Look at us. Look at Pádraig. Life is good.

It’s very simple.

No point in letting your lives be frittered away by detail.

Pádraig would not have achieved what he did, he would not be where he is, and he would certainly not enjoy his life as he does, without the phenomenal support of his family and friends, old and new. Thank you all!

12 years ago, in Hamburg’s UKE, he nearly died a second time following his accident. There had been three operations on his lungs within just a few days. Then he got a SIRS, better known as sepsis. His life was left hanging on a thread for nearly 24 hours. Then his nurse very quietly noted that it looked like he had turned a corner.

New Year’s Eve will always bring back this memory. How he turned the corner with the dawn of the New Year.

We are with the light that shines in the darkness, a light the darkness will never overcome.

It’s simple.