Happy New Year (2017)!
“Hope everyone has a happy new year in 2017!”
There – the obligatory statement.
While true, we get more mystified by the compartmentalization of our lives. Anniversaries in particular. I guess the only thing that might be right is that the calendar dates (month, day) are the same – and you have a chance for similar weather…
Why is “reflection” over an annual period – more pronounced?
Shouldn’t every day – or even every minute or second be an opportunity to reflect, remember, and improve? Or is it easier just to look back once a year, and start anew?
Maybe that’s why people (in their failed attempts at “resolutions”) never seem to get anywhere. Because even with acknowledged failures during the year – their excuse is “it’ll be next year’s resolution.” Promotes procrastination.
Perhaps it’s one of the very few things everyone has in common. Following the same date and time standard. But with all the commercialization of this “thing” we have in common, it isn’t always easy to buck the trend if “everyone else is doing something.”
Well – this past “New Year’s Eve,” we were otherwise occupied with other stuff – and after realizing it was after midnight – had a brief “hey it’s 2017” moment, and carried on. Having less things pressure you for any reason has been our goal for a while. And it felt fine!
About Hoboken411
We’ve been “blogging” as Hoboken411 since before Twatter and Fakebook infected the masses. Back in 2005, it was all about politics and other bullshit in and around Hoboken, New Jersey (and the tri-state NYC area in general). But since those social media “apps” have amazingly coerced the majority of the populous to “blog for free” (to make Fuckerberg insanely wealthy) we’ve taken a slightly different approach. We talk about whatever the fuck we feel like talking about (including some things in Hoboken). But our main objective is to slap the “mentally-enslaved morons” (as Mark Dice eloquently says) upside the face with a dose of reality. We know full well that most people won’t be receptive to our ideas all the time. But feathers get ruffled to this day still – which means (as they say in the medical industry): “It’s working!”
My wife and I had our first date on New Year’s Eve and we stayed awake talking until dawn on the beach at Waikiki. If it weren’t for that it would just be another day, but since everyone else is celebrating our first date too, we just go along with it, you know, to be nice.
It is a good thing to be able to look back at the path of your life and see if you are pleased with the view every now and then. Once a year isn’t often enough.
/salute and /hug
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
Marcus Aurelius