On the Eve...

Another chapter of our book ends tonight, and another begins. Some people hate New Years. They see it as just another night, a silly celebration of the earth's rotational pattern. So be it, I say. In America it's no surprise that some of us would never take the time to say the things we'll say tonight or do whatever it is we'll do. But tonight we will, because it's the end of a year, and it makes so many of us realize that life is moving faster than we can often keep up. And if we don't celebrate, what would be left to do. Ignore time? The way I see it, we need to recognize the changing of the year, the melting of one season into the heat of another. Not everyone needs to see this change so obviously, with balls dropping from the sky or plastic zeroes worn as eyeglasses, but I think most of us do. I think we need to see the change to make a change. It's no coincidence new year's resolutions have become a trend. The inconvenient truth is that not everyone is happy about who they are. There's things we'd like to wash off our skin, problems we wish would just go away. On the flip, there's all the dreams we want nothing else but to make our realities, and all the people we hope will notice our smiles from across a room. We want more out of life. And if passing into a new calendar year means looking in a mirror and trying to figure out what it is we want out of our time here, then fuck yeah for the new year, because I sure as hell let too many days slip away with the assumption tomorrow's daylight will last longer than todays did.



That said, I hope you've found those few or many friends to chime it in with as cozily or wildly as you have planned. There's no shame in celebrating your ass off at a bar or eating a carton of lo mein while watching Titanic in your bedroom. It's a personal shot at redemption to say the least. And starting the year off doing exactly what you want to do is a great first step. I'll let you all know later how my midnight felt...



So cheers to 2009! Cheers to recognizing what you want, and going for it.