Whineding Down
As the roman calender year draws to a close with the inevitable New Year's Eve festivities I look back, like so many others in the world. Like all years this one came with ups and downs. Gains and losses. I will say the year was balanced in the end. That the pendulum swung equally in each direction. I am very much ready for it to swing back to the good direction though, the last half wasn't as good as the first half.
I lost old friends, gained new ones. Fought inner and outer demons to which I overcame both... Evidenced by me still being here... I fulfilled my getting my BA before I was 30. I continued my path of becoming an actor by finishing the first part and foundation of my training that I decided on when I was 27; of which set SO many things into motion that I couldn't even foresee back then. I'm still on the long road to fulfilling that dream. They say it takes 15 years to become an actor... Well, I'm only on year 3-4, so I have quite a ways to go.
The year is ending pretty much how I expected, not with a bang but with a whimper compared to how it began... Oddly enough, I can't really remember my New Years last year... I'm pretty sure I worked that night and then went and did something... I just can't recall.
On a point of tradition I decided to look up the song that in movies we always hear people kinda singing and sometimes even in the streets come midnight on New Year's Eve. Originally it was created by the poet Robert Burns, which is awesome in itself. It started out as a Scots tradition and spread to neighboring peoples from there. Here is a link to the original text and a translation...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auld_Lang_Syne#Lyrics
I might add that I find it personally ironic when looking it up, since Burn's is one of my favorite Scottish poets as well as the missive of the song.. I find it fitting.
If I don't see you, have a Happy New Year!
I lost old friends, gained new ones. Fought inner and outer demons to which I overcame both... Evidenced by me still being here... I fulfilled my getting my BA before I was 30. I continued my path of becoming an actor by finishing the first part and foundation of my training that I decided on when I was 27; of which set SO many things into motion that I couldn't even foresee back then. I'm still on the long road to fulfilling that dream. They say it takes 15 years to become an actor... Well, I'm only on year 3-4, so I have quite a ways to go.
The year is ending pretty much how I expected, not with a bang but with a whimper compared to how it began... Oddly enough, I can't really remember my New Years last year... I'm pretty sure I worked that night and then went and did something... I just can't recall.
On a point of tradition I decided to look up the song that in movies we always hear people kinda singing and sometimes even in the streets come midnight on New Year's Eve. Originally it was created by the poet Robert Burns, which is awesome in itself. It started out as a Scots tradition and spread to neighboring peoples from there. Here is a link to the original text and a translation...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auld_Lang_Syne#Lyrics
I might add that I find it personally ironic when looking it up, since Burn's is one of my favorite Scottish poets as well as the missive of the song.. I find it fitting.
If I don't see you, have a Happy New Year!