A new year, as such it is, being almost two hours old.
With a new year, one reflects on the one past.
It was a year full of many things, full or great sorrow and pain that will not heal as easy as the years tick over.
A year of death, and yea of war. But this is not all.
Were one to dwell upon the bad, the malaise would grow heavy and not lift, like a suffocating miasma of despond.
Instead, one can remember all that happen, and grieve, most surely, but also look back with different emotions. One can look back in anger, pride, shame, regret, but also in wistfullness, nostalgia, and dare one say it, happiness.
This was the year when one got Civ2, and the Internet for that matter, as well as did many, many things. A year in which one forsook much from the past- alcohol, ideology, love, but also took on new ideas and thoughts, and shaped life as best as one can.
The past is painfully unchangeable, but the present and the future hold that intangible quality left at the bottom of our Pandora's jewelry box- hope.
It is hope tinged with reality, and the knowledge that some things are beyond even it, but it is hope nonetheless.
I'll break out of the philosophical mode and wish ye all a very, very Happy New Year, full of hope, new horizons, and whatever you seek.
From the bitter dark hearted bastard who lives at the bottom of the Off Topic Forum.
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