Dec 29, 2011
E.MOON
Build your life brick upon brick.
Live a life of truth,
And you will look back on a life of truth.
Live a life of fantasy,
And you will look back on delusion.
I always used to think of New Years Eve as a time for drunks.
New Years Day has to have a massive turn out at any branch of Alcoholics Anonymous. Those who have fallen off the ladder or those which want to climb it.
To me New Years Eve was of no use to anyone, except those who thought it of maximum importance to buy a new dress, or adorn themselves in glitter. In other words it was simply used as a scapegoat for promiscuous perverts and loose-lipped-eejits
I hated going out on NYE. It didn’t matter if I was in Leicester Square, Times Square or in the shadow of Sydney Opera House. People got sloppy, strangers accosted, and my neck was broken trying to avoid slushy and carelessly aimed kisses.
When I reached the age of ten it was decreed I was allowed to stay up late. Now I am forced to stay up late or considered a spoilsport.
The only reason I want to make sure I am awake on New Years Eve is to make sure the old year has gone.
New Years Resolutions are a total waste of time unless you promise yourself
‘not to suffer fools gladly.’
A new statistic has come forth from the American Medical Association which proves that Americans are now officially considered more overweight than average people. So all of us now who are thinking of going on a diet, don’t bother because we are considered average and not overweight at all.
The best resolution you can make is not to make a resolution until 2013. Personally I’m am looking forward to the New Year to start making some new bad habits.
I have no intention to sanctioning my life any more than it has been sanctioned by other people.
Making a New Year’s resolution is forcing yourself into a state of despair and deprivation. You know you are going to fail and ask yourself if you are a masochist?
It might be worth making it a real ‘New Year.’
New eyes lazered or lifted, new nose, bicycle pump to blow up the lips and bum, a syringe full of Botox?
No thanks I’ll pass on that one, easier to be jet propelled from a rocket than go through that, just to look a mirror image of a mummy in the Egyptian Museum. I consider the facial scars of experience minute and enhancing, I have no desire to rise above the little things.
Benjamin Franklin said “Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you a better man.”
Well I achieved one of those this year and the toilet seat is always up in my home once again.
I actually don’t understand why we use a blare of trumpets and a clanging of bells each time a New Year comes. What do we expect different from the previous year?
Why don’t we trumpet in a new week or a new month?
Every year has its up and downs, its losses and gains, its blessings and curses.
When we look through the pages of 2011, surely we can see growth. Surely we can see our reactions to circumstance, situations and people have changed. It is age which weathers the storms of life, because with age comes more patience, more hope and more charity.
Our values change, we don’t have to pretend who and what we are any more, we have found the friends who we accept for their failings as they accept us for ours.
The friends who are with us year after year, who support us through the bad times and celebrate with us during the good times.
Only I am responsible for my life, and so far I am proud I have the courage to make the right decisions for myself.
I don’t crave to change anyone else’s habits or life; I keep my wisdom to myself and recognize I am no better or worse than anyone else. I have to lose the habit, well not lose but perhaps temper it a bit with humor, the urge I have to complain about aches and pains because when I listen to someone else doing it, it bores the pants off me.
My memory is going, thank God. The bonus with that is the bad memories are dimmed. I don’t care any more about the ageing process as I have a fountain of youth in my mind which is the forerunner to any talent I have. I hope my creativity brings life and love into the hearts of those who are near to me.
“I wish all of you a Healthy, Happy, New Year.
May all your dreams come true.
Most of all may you be at peace with yourself and the life you live.”
As the wise man once told me:
Last year’s words were spoken in last year’s language,
To make a new beginning you have to make an end.
Perhaps 2012 will give us the opportunity to get it right.