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[roantree]

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Belief would be far less insidious if it was truly about what people Believed and not what they feared. [some pentaps] No, that isn't right either.

[Filter: Public]The new year looks remarkably like the last. I've always thought it was stupid that we had to celebrate the new year with the snow of the last year still on the

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[innocencefaux]

It's called hope for the better~ And it's called celebrating being able to live to see the next year~

[roantree]

Both of which are difficult to do with all of this grungy snow and cold weather.

Hope comes in spring, my lady, when the world actually renews itself.

[innocencefaux]

Move south then. I hear it's a lot warmer and little snow this time of year.

Hope springs eternal so long as you let it.

[roantree]

That idea gets more and more tempting every year.

Springs freeze in winter, my lady.

[homagedue]

:Cerys:

Why? The same trees'll be there. Same cobblestones. What's snow got to do with anything?

[roantree]

Same trees, yes, but why celebrate the new when they're still barren? Seems all sorts of pointless.

[homagedue]

It's a beginning, ain't it? You complain about old snow, then turn around and complain about old trees for the opposite reason!

Ha. I got you.

[roantree]

You did not. Old snow remains on the ground, and trees remain as barren as they were a week ago in the "old" year.

Spring makes for a better time for the new year, because that is when things change and the world comes back to life.

[junethebright]

Blame the Romans.

[roantree]

I do enjoy having someone to blame

[junethebright]

Always a pleasure, isn't it?

I do hope your year hasn't been going too badly, though.

[roantree]

It is only a few days old. There is all the potential to it getting wworse.

But I'm not dead, so I suppose there is that.

[chemicalcalm]

You know it is only a matter of numbers and time.

[roantree]

Which are combined with meaning to sort of mean something! It is just horrible timing and makes no rational sense.

[chemicalcalm]

If we started any later just imagine how long the close of the year would feel.

[roantree]

It'd adjust to when the new end was, and we wouldn't even think of right now as end of the year. Just more of winter with an eye to spring and real renewal and beginnings.