So it is 2009 and I for one am hoping for a much better year than 2008. Other than my granddaughter being born (which I must admit makes up for a helluva lot), and the Celtics winning the championship, 2008 pretty much sucked in my tiny little world.
Did you ever have one of those years where just nothing seemed to go right? That was 2008 for me. It had been many, many years, oh so many more than I can remember, that I have felt that the world was spinning against me in particular. I have been extremely blessed for the past twenty-five years and so I truly have no reason to complain but yet here I am wondering what went wrong? Or is it just time to pay the piper for all of our good fortune? Perhaps.
The fact is, I am simply tired. My vitality and joy faded over the last year into dread and resolution at the current state of affairs. I don’t believe it is just me either, the world itself seems to be at a turning point, teetering on the edge of a global collapse with no end in sight. Our collective disgust at the growing disappearance of morality, integrity and strength of character in the human animal has sucked the life and light out of the world and unless we as a collective can find something to believe in once more, I don’t see a better day coming.
I don’t know what will help 2009 to give us a brighter day but I still hold out a tiny glimmer of hope that something will happen. Something good.
Bob Dylan said “The Times They Are A-Changin.” Lets all hope that they are a-changin for the better and that this is not just another attempt at the reinvention of the wheel.