how you spend new year's eve is how you will spend the next full year

how you spend new years eve is how you will spend the next full year

fiction
Edward w Pritchard

stolen material here, from my Mother

How you spend New Year's eve is how you will spend the next full year. If it's a fancy dinner, you will spend the next year eating and eating. If it's drinking over priced champagne from a passed bottle around a trash container on Main street you will spend the next full year fighting and hating those you used to clink crystal glasses with.

January gets prime emphasis as a barometer of how the year will go. In your life, in your world what determines such things as how the year will go are your habits, your repeated behaviors. One full week gone in this New year. What are we doing different?

Eat less, exercise more, write in your daily journal, save 15% of your income, get an income, be less sexist toward women, awake an hour earlier, help the poor, love your neighbor; all are good ideas.

What if you took in a movie New Year's eve? You will spend the next year watching some else earn a good living and you will watch another young woman shock us with her new ways of displaying a tight black dress.

It's all the same over and over. Change yourself to see things differently. Watch your world in a mirror for a few hours, spend two hours in China town, sit on the floor and play with four handicapped six year old children; you must stop looking at the shadows on the back of the cave wall to see life as it really is.

Life as it really is? It's all the same, it doesn't mean anything and one persons life means just as much but no more than anyone Else's; we are all equal we are all unique.

The hard part of life this year? Love thy neighbor, it's the hardest part.