It’s 7:00 AM on New Year’s eve morning and I already can’t wait until 12:00 Midnight. I can’t wait until all the fake anticipation and excitement inside of me about the clock striking 12 is finally realized! Only 22 hours to go! I can’t wait to say goodbye, it’s been fun to the people at the party I am attending this evening. I can’t wait to kiss my wife and kids goodnight and just go to sleep! If you are like me, the best you can do for tonight is smile at the people around you and wait it out.
However, New Year’s Day is a great day for me. Not because it’s a good time to set goals for myself I won’t achieve or resolutions I will not keep. It is a wonderful time to appreciate everything I have. It is a special moment to cherish on all the good things and accept all the bad things that happened during this past year. To feel the support of the people around you. To realize that I wouldn’t trade any of it for what I have for someone else’s life. And to know just how darn lucky I am to be me.
Happy New Year! Goodnight. I am going to bed.
Barry:
Heard myself laughing as you described the “fake excitement” around New Year’s Eve. So true. I learned from several friends, many of them didn’t go out but just stuck around the house, watched movies, played music, games and then went to bed.
Is this a trend? Maybe all the lies, fake caring is making us all prematurely old. How about this for kind of “faking friendship”: Why do my friends from long ago bother to send me a Christmas card and sign their name, the kids and dog? I have learned nothing except they are too busy to REALLY say something but the card makes them feel good.
Not a scrooge but maybe brutally honest,
Tanalyn