Entry for 01 January 2008

January 1st 2008, the first day of a new year. Thank you all for your good wishes. I will be glad when today is finished. I don't like new year, I never celebrate it and I don't make resolutions. I'm afraid that for me, it is just another day.

I have never understood it's importance. We don't celebrate the start of each new month or each new week, so why new year? Yes, I know that sounds grouchy but it's what I feel. Why does it have to be the start of a new year before we can make resolutions? If you want to start something new, or make changes, then any day is a good day to do that.

Why do so many new year resolutions fail, often within days? Maybe they were made with the wrong intention. Maybe, they were made simply because it was new year and not actually the right time? I don't know. I just know I don't make them.

Why do we apparently love everyone at new year but forget about them within weeks? You can love and celebrate any day. Why are we so positive and forward thinking today and yet the negativity will have crept back by the time everyone returns to work? I don't know.

If, I was to make a resolution, it would be, to try and remember to celebrate the good things each day, not just for one day. I don't make that resolution, because I know I would fail.

I have had a migraine for the last few days; a bad one. I have been in bed. I feel a bit better tonight. Neither of those facts have anything to do with new year!

I have another grouch about new year. Since 1999 (for the early millennium celebrants) and 2000 (for the late celebrants) fireworks have featured as part of the new year celebrations. I didn't mind too much for the millennium as that seemed to be a fairly momentous occasion. (I didn't celebrate it) What I fail to understand is why have they now become an annual affair? We never had fireworks before.

I heard on the news yesterday that London's firework display was 11 minutes long and cost 1.1 million pounds. That is £100,000 per minute. I find that obscene. In our affluent country we can afford to burn over a million pounds in eleven minutes just for a few loud bangs and some bright lights which all look the same. There are countries in the world where you can see and hear similar effects and even get killed in the process. I'm sorry, but I find that sick.

OK, I have had my little moan, sorry if my views differ to yours. For those that do celebrate, I hope you had a good time and for those who made resolutions, I wish you luck in keeping them.

I am going to bed now to try and clear the last vestiges of my headache. I will be happier tomorrow if my headache has gone and it will be the second of the month and therefore no pressure to make promises that I can't keep.

 

At the risk of being boring, as I know you have all seen this before............

 

 

I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive.
I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger.
I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.
I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.
I wish you enough hellos to get you through the final good-bye.

They say it takes a minute to find a
special person, an hour to appreciate them,a day to love them, but then an
entire life to forget them.

I WISH YOU ENOUGH