This Is the Year That Was, That Was the Year That Is

[snurri]

This is why I hate New Year's: because it kind of feels like someone is standing at my elbow waiting to collect the last twelve months, glancing at their watch and tapping their foot, and I'm sitting here thinking "Hey! I'm still working on this, you fucker!" This is my life we're talking about, and I don't believe in stages or other arbitrary divisions--those are the constructs of fiction. I don't believe in clean slates and I don't believe we can just put things behind us. 2009 sucked in many respects, but that doesn't all go away at the stroke of midnight; it's just a tick on an arbitrarily set clock. Taking stock is all very well, I suppose, but I don't need a calendar to tell me that I'm not where I want to be.

So anyway; happy new calendar day, you jokers.

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yes. On the one hand, I keep thinking, "Get me out of this year so we can stop hemorrhaging relatives!" On the other hand, I know that the turn of the year will not magically make my elderly relatives young again (or fix the vertigo or any of a number of other things). Wheee.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

I wish there was a holiday like that.

[orbitalmechanic.livejournal.com]

I like to take stock of narrow, targeted areas in which I come out looking awesome. It works surprisingly well.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Let's see: in 2009 I ate more oatmeal than in all previous years combined! I WIN!!!

[dustchick.livejournal.com]

Can I just copy and paste this on my blog?

Happy new calendar day to you, too!

[snurri.livejournal.com]

My brain is under a Creative Commons license. Hope your new calendars are shiny and/or clever, and allow you to track the passage of days with great effectiveness!

[sacwentie.livejournal.com]

Inspired by you, I stayed in my room reading and sleeping and avoided the party my roommate was having upstairs, which I was supposed to attend. If he's mad, I'm referring him to you.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Whereas I went and had dinner with your sister and her family, thereby possibly making myself a hypocrite. :-P

[haddayr.livejournal.com]

A crabby, curmudgeonly hypocrite, I might add, you crabby LJ poster, you!

Just for this post I'm not putting up the long, exhaustively detailed and brilliantly self-reflective post I'd planned to, describing the emotional highs and low of both this past year as well as the decade.

I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY

[amysisson.livejournal.com]

I have the opposite reaction: New Year's is my absolute favorite holiday. No matter what I did or didn't accomplish the previous year, I like the feeling of starting fresh, even while I recognize that it's purely arbitrary.

But I know where you're coming from. ;-)