bono is right; "nothing changes on new year's day..." the stores might be closed, the bartenders pockets might be full, but the world is still fucked and chances are good that parts of your life and the lives of the people you care about are fucked too. oh, was that too harsh? a little? here's the thing - i don't celebrate new years because its lame to think that at the stroke of midnight things will magically change. things change - and not by magic - with every stroke of the clock. you are changing now, and every single action and word from you holds the potential of Change.
how did you change after midnight? did you feel like a changed person today? the only change i experienced today came from a fortune cookie (hey, if people can believe change comes at midnight on january 1st, then i can believe change comes from a fortune cookie). i was thinking my mantra (verses resolution) for 2008 would be, "no jErKwAdS" but the fortune cookie changed my mind (pun not intended, ok, well, maybe). here's my fortune / 2008 mantra:
"It is not your character to give up."
not only is this true, but what a great mantra! the last two months have REALLY sucked in my world, but midnight, january 1st, 2008, isn't going to change any of this...i am.
fuck giving up, people. fuck giving up...
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
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Give up? Aw hell No!
That's a good fortune. I've been complaining lately how fortune cookies arn't really fortune cookies anymore. They are more like nagging advice.
When did they start hiring greek mothers to work in fortune cookie factories.
My latest says "Draw up a budget and figure out how to cut down your debt." I took a pic and added it to myspace.
I came up with a thing in high school, "Each new millisecond meets a new millennium. Not that a millennium exists between each set of milliseconds but that the stroke of midnight beginning January 1 is indeed such an arbitrary point of time to put so much meaning into. For each millisecond of time, you can go back exactly one thousand years earlier, exact to the millisecond. Big deal.
Nevertheless, I don't get out much and rarely consume alcohol short of an occasional Mike's Hard Lemonade, but last night I got pretty majorly buzzed (for me, anyway) on this homemade kalua w/Silk, and it helped me ring in the new year nicely...or, anyway, as well as can be expected. You gotta give me that, Holly! Fuck '08 and fuck the departed '07, but...there's nothing too wrong with having a party among friends centered around such an arbitrary point of time to allow you to blow off some steam and give you an atmosphere in which for a change to not wallow, in my opinion! (I left Erin's at probably around 3:30am and walked back this way with some dude I'd just met, who--it turns out--lives at Core & Brandon to my Core & Spotswood. We discussed/debated some AR stuff at the corner of Brandon & Core for at least a half an hour. Both pretty well buzzed, but it was good. He twice referred to our "arguing" and I corrected him each time: "No, dude...we're DISCUSSING this stuff, we're not arguing!!")
i'm downloading 'the past didn't go anywhere' as we speak. this post reminded me. i've noticed - we tend to, as creatures of habit, like to package things in neat little bundles. especially time. as if that changes things...
ha, cv! i've been calling fortune cookies advice cookies for years now - as that is ALL i ever get! i even wrote a haiku about it once for 'the pit.' i must try and find that.
The last few months have been MAJORLY fucked up for me, too...I didn't realize you were going through the same thing, but here's to tenacity. I'm just trying to hold on, too...
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