Entry 37: "Auld Lame Syne"

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Helloooooooooooooooooo, and welcome to 2007! Before I begin, I just want to say welcome back to the Blog; It's been about five weeks since the last post on the old website, but now I'm back and ready to get things going again, with this new setup! In case you're new, I had to move this blog from my MySpace page, and then the Yahoo 360 page, because the entry writing system's kinda lame and glitchy, and there's no way for you, the reader, to give talkbacks and counter-opinions without being a MySpace member and going through all that registering inconvenience, so I made ABSOLUTELY sure this site could let anyone read AND post replies on all entries posted here on out. Yahoo or MySpace membership not required. Hopefully THIS should prove a lot more of an easier Blogging-ground than The-Site-That-Tom-What's-His-Name-Built, or Y360, so.... here's to the future (*hypothetical cheers and consuming of non-alcoholic beverages)!

So, my first topic of the new year is, (*imitating Jerry Seinfeld) what's the deal with new year's resolutions, anyway? We all try to better ourselves a little every day anyway, but for some reason, around new year's time the drive for personal betterment seems much more universally.... well... done, I guess. Sorry, I don't have my thesaurus in front of me right now. Anyway, so after Christmas every year, we start planning out the new year to come. Whether it includes big trips, new jobs, new opportunities, a lifestyle change, what have you. But even though that stuff happens anyway as part of everyday life, you still have to overcome the problems and try to come out better than when you went in. Whether you purposely plan a way through beforehand under the title of "resolution" is, to me, irrelevant because it's just a changing of the calendar. If it was June 1st, and you were coming up with mid-year resolutions, it'd still be the same thing. Everybody knows the trials and tribulations that occur through life don't have a concept of timing, so "they" don't care if you're trying to quit smoking, or lose weight, or get around to fixing that infernal dripping in the bathroom sink. Okay, cheezy example/metaphoric personification of life problems, but you get my point.

That's why I never make resolutions. Because if for some reason I don't meet my goals for the year, and December 31 comes around, it just doesn't feel really like the year was used to its full potential. Sure, you go in with a positive attitude at the start, thinking to yourself, "It only gets better from here!," but-- and this is something I talk about with people often-- one person's optimistic attitude DOES NOT... DOES NOT affect the world around them and make things any better. It doesn't. Say you start on a new job, and you go in happy, ready to tackle any task, but the boss is a total butt-head (gotta keep this blog G-rated), and no matter what you do to make things go smoothly, sometimes that happy attitude just doesn't rub off. There could be personal drama happening in that boss's life to cause him/her being so butt-head-y, or maybe they're just the Kevin Federline of the workplace; no matter how hard they may try, they can't stop putting out bad stuff. ......I think that joke works. Same holds true in other people you may encounter. Sometimes they're just off, and the only way they cope with the suckiness of their situation is by spreading misery and sucking the happy out of the room. There's one in every office. But I digress. Make no mistake, I'm not saying resolutions are a bad idea, and I'm not trying to be pessimistic, I'm just saying keep a cool head, try to look on the reasonably neutral side, if no bright side is really there, depending on the situation, and do what you can without limiting-- yes, limiting yourself to accomplishing x-y-z in twelve months' time. At least, I wouldn't.

...........But that's just me.

Thanks for visiting, and feel free to post your opinions on this or any of my blog entries and-- Oh, one more thing: A running thing on the old blog was my hinting occasionally at a big media project that's gonna revolutionize a lotta stuff.... I still can't say much right now, but..... well, stay tuned 'cause the best is still to come............... So happy 2007, and good luck in the new (*resolution-free) year!

See ya next week.

-D.

ADDENDUM TO BLOG (1/5/07): I've moved over all 36 blog entries (plus a retitled #33) from the original MySpace blog page too, all searchable, bookmarkable, emailable and commentable. Geez, the last part of that sentence is a SpellCheck program's nightmare right there. Anyway, enjoy the new site, and I hope to see you here again Monday!