Out with the old, in with the new
Last year, on New Year’s Eve, I was sick as a dog with the flu and sick in the heart from love(s) gone wrong, and at midnight I hung my head out the window and listened to the fireworks. A text message came from NY saying the New Year would be approached with “eyes wide open.” I was numb – unmoved by his message, by the freshness of a new year, and unmotivated to get off the couch and seek alternatives.
This year, I am taking a different approach to the New Year – I’m aiming for good health by heeding my body’s call to rest right now. My plan on New Year’s eve is to surround myself with people I care about and who care about me. My heart is on the mend and it has grown stronger where it was broken. No longer a silly girl who gives all for love.
2007 might not be about anything BIG – it just might be about getting up and doing it again – but I will celebrate my victories as they come – moving in, moving on, and moving up.
December 30th, 2006 at 8:46 am
“It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.” Forster, from Howards End.
December 30th, 2006 at 6:04 pm
Thank god – I thought you had said Howard Zinn – the pop historian – I love Forster and love Howard’s End – one of my absolutely fav books and movies. I still get chills at one particular scene – when he could change his life and have the love he really wants and he chooses not to – and she is forever gone from him.
December 31st, 2006 at 8:18 am
Are you thinking of a “particular scene” in The Remains of the day? I can’t remember such a moment in HE. Who are the “he” and “she” you’re thinking of?
December 31st, 2006 at 5:29 pm
I was thinking of Howard’s End – sorry.