Great beginnings...
Well, another year came and went. And even though I don't like to think of beginnings and ends, because time just flows, and doesn't stop just because the calendar says so... well, it's a good feeling to have a fresh new year full of blank pages and new starts...
Makes you wanna behave and make all the right decisions, so you can say later, hey, I made it right! :P
And in the last 20 minutes of this first new day of 2007, I am just remembering the plans I had last year and the little list I made of all my resolutions... and I feel accomplished and proud of myself :)
Forget the bad stuff. Last year, on New Year's Eve, I made a list of all the bad stuff that had happened throughout the year and that I wanted to forget about, and then I burned it. And then I vowed to do that each December 31st. Well, yesterday I sat with a piece of paper and a pencil and... nothing came to mind. Sure, a couple of things went bad on 2006. Maybe more than a couple. But you know what? They weren't even that important. I moved on, I got over them. And I discovered I didn't need to make a silly list and burn it. Oh, I did it anyway. Just because. But all the time, I was smiling, with a big, wide DUMB grin on my face. Thinking how silly I felt. And also how GOOD I felt.
And now I know I don't need to make a list of resolutions either. I know I can make anything I set my mind to :) (including a change of layout, maybe, it's about time :P)
Violent Femmes - Good Feeling // Bloc Party - This Modern Love // Death Cab for Cutie - Soul Meets Body // Nada Surf - Inside Of Love
EDIT:
Hahaha, I just read this over at warren-ellis and I *had* to post it (I hope it's OK if I quote him):
This year:
* Become your own fantasy of yourself.
* Invent something.
* Urinate on something consecrated.
* Destroy someone's mind using only your eyes and words.
* Create a Title or Doctorate for yourself.
* Listen to one new thing every day.
* Watch all the lights until morning.
* Understand in your heart that the Dog is the natural enemy of the Human.
* Spend at least 12 hours as an alien being.
* Force complete strangers to look at your "spaceship."
* Without getting arrested.
* Or married.
* Be worthy of obsession.
* Be worthy of air.
* Be glorious.
* Be seeing you.
Makes you wanna behave and make all the right decisions, so you can say later, hey, I made it right! :P
And in the last 20 minutes of this first new day of 2007, I am just remembering the plans I had last year and the little list I made of all my resolutions... and I feel accomplished and proud of myself :)
Forget the bad stuff. Last year, on New Year's Eve, I made a list of all the bad stuff that had happened throughout the year and that I wanted to forget about, and then I burned it. And then I vowed to do that each December 31st. Well, yesterday I sat with a piece of paper and a pencil and... nothing came to mind. Sure, a couple of things went bad on 2006. Maybe more than a couple. But you know what? They weren't even that important. I moved on, I got over them. And I discovered I didn't need to make a silly list and burn it. Oh, I did it anyway. Just because. But all the time, I was smiling, with a big, wide DUMB grin on my face. Thinking how silly I felt. And also how GOOD I felt.
And now I know I don't need to make a list of resolutions either. I know I can make anything I set my mind to :) (including a change of layout, maybe, it's about time :P)
Violent Femmes - Good Feeling // Bloc Party - This Modern Love // Death Cab for Cutie - Soul Meets Body // Nada Surf - Inside Of Love
EDIT:
Hahaha, I just read this over at warren-ellis and I *had* to post it (I hope it's OK if I quote him):
This year:
* Become your own fantasy of yourself.
* Invent something.
* Urinate on something consecrated.
* Destroy someone's mind using only your eyes and words.
* Create a Title or Doctorate for yourself.
* Listen to one new thing every day.
* Watch all the lights until morning.
* Understand in your heart that the Dog is the natural enemy of the Human.
* Spend at least 12 hours as an alien being.
* Force complete strangers to look at your "spaceship."
* Without getting arrested.
* Or married.
* Be worthy of obsession.
* Be worthy of air.
* Be glorious.
* Be seeing you.