Some thoughts on new year day of 2012

01/01/2012 Sunday.

This is the first day of the new year. What lays ahead is impossible to predict unless you are someone with super natural power. There are quite a lot of people claiming they have this kind of ability, they are called "fortunetellers".

In Taiwan, I believe it is still the same as was 20 years ago when I just left Taiwan, that people of either older or younger, like to consult with the fortunetellers on the new year day about the possible general outcome they will be facing to, or what direction they should be heading to for following one year.

This is a very natural deed people will do when they are under a strong feeling of uncertainty. I did the same thing myself, too. Once, when I was about 29 years old not sure where should I go forward -- giving up the joint venture of our own printing business and resumming as an employee or remaining as I were. The fortuneteller gave me an answer that could be interpreted into either ways, and I chose to be working for others. I believe in the logic which says that everything you did leads you to a certain outcome. But I also believe in fatalism which says that everything happens according to our destination.

So this is new year day of 2012, to me it is just a an ordinary day.