New Year
Usually at the turn of the year I post a lovingly detailed list of the highs and lows of the previous 12 months and state the desperately held belief that the next year will be bright and shiny and good. I'm not really sure I can do that this year. There have been far too many things and I have lost belief in my powers of wishing.
It seems to be the Cantabrian way at the moment to finish a list of our woes with a cheery "but I'm so much better off than some". I hear this even from those who I am mentally categorising as the 'some' I am better off than. For me though this really is true: my children are thriving, my loved ones still live, I know so many wonderful people (some of whom even seem to like me back) and we have the resources, financial, emotional and social, to mitigate many of the difficulties the universe throws at us.
My wish for 2012, then, is that we all survive the hard bits, savour the good, and learn, grow and love each other through it all.
It seems to be the Cantabrian way at the moment to finish a list of our woes with a cheery "but I'm so much better off than some". I hear this even from those who I am mentally categorising as the 'some' I am better off than. For me though this really is true: my children are thriving, my loved ones still live, I know so many wonderful people (some of whom even seem to like me back) and we have the resources, financial, emotional and social, to mitigate many of the difficulties the universe throws at us.
My wish for 2012, then, is that we all survive the hard bits, savour the good, and learn, grow and love each other through it all.