Happy new year...may the happiness last year round
Among the tangle that is my memory, I don’t remember any particularly interesting New Year’s celebration at home, which is very normal since celebrating is not really our thing in my family.
I’ve spent many New Year’s Eve’s watching TV alone in the living room, and I realize it’s a new year because I hear fireworks in the distance…
It’s not that I’m not interested… I even have a New Year’s tradition (which I got from TV and I don’t know anyone else who does that :P), it’s just that it’s not a big deal… and as I grew up and the celebration became more “worldly”, it became just another day that is only special because we don’t work, one of the many inventions that us savanna apes have come up with. Maybe to try to bring some order to the world, perhaps because of our blessed mania of having to explain everything, yes of course the Earth’s rotation, how it works, etc, etc, etc… the thing is that New Year’s doesn’t particularly excite me…
But I’ve come to the conclusion that it has something very good about it, it’s a time that we should take advantage of, everyone is convinced of the new beginning, of the blank slate, plans multiply like rabbits, dreamers are on every corner, leaving behind pains, sorrows, mistakes and focusing energy on what’s to come.
All that good energy can’t be ignored, it’s true, if someone wanted to start over, quit smoking, lose weight, start a savings account, they could do it any day, but when the whole world sends their good wishes, when the whole world believes it’s possible… you have to ride the wave and go with the flow…
So today I join the world, I cling to the blank slate that begins, to the opportunity to leave the bad behind, to the happiness of not knowing what life will bring but at the same time eagerly anticipating all the good and regaining strength to face what’s not so good… and to those who stop by here, you are loved and I hope you have a beautiful year.