With barely 2 days left to the end of the year, it’s strange how I dont really feel the buzz of welcoming 2009 in the atmosphere. Well, okay, I take my statement back. You see on TV the free-to-air channels trying their hardest to entice you to the “Biggest Countdown Party on the Marina Bay Floating Stage”, but, that’s really about it.
Age truly, is catching up on me. Tsk. I am an old fuddy duddy.
Im most certainly,however, looking forward to pay day and the bonus next month. Now THAT’S always a good thing at the end of the month. HAHA!
As the clock and calendar countdown to welcome the dawn of a new beginning, I suppose you’ll see on most blogs the perfunctory New Year Resolution post. Perfunctory because you know most of the time, by the third month, most would have forgotten at least 50% of what they wrote. Which is the primary reason I gave up writing resolutions years ago and stuck to one single motto/resolution in life, year after year:
Keeping an open mind.
It’s sad to see that as the number of candles increase on our birthday cakes each year, people lose their sense of wonder and faculty of fascination. And I’ve been blessed this 2008 to have evaded that sort of regression (or natural progression some may say). It’s odd how I wrote about an almost identical issue the very same time last year.
That aside, it’s the end of the year. And the the time to reflect about lessons learned and work towards a better new year. The time for resolutions and all things new. Haha. This year held many note-worthy events, some of which were very sweet, equally painful and heart-breaking but all in all, strengthening.
As I look through my older posts, I’d have to admit that I was more a fervent blogger previously as compared to now. There are some aspects of my life I’d rather keep private and well, others Im just too lazy to keep record of. More importantly, time has in some sense worn away the faculty of fascination we all used to have as we were kids. No longer does a birthday cake with brightly lit candles trigger wonder and joy in adults. Instead, it reminds us of the years gone by, and the few short ones left.
Strange how I could use that very same paragraphs one year later, word for word, without editing.
Like 2007, 2008 held lotsa great, but markedly different memories for me.
