backin' time

This time last year - or rather yesterday last year - I was nursing a very large glass of vodka and lemon. The size of the glass is still intimidating and I swear it was bottomless or somehow managed to fill itself up throughout the night. It was a good start to the year. Friends and family all over the place; better than New Year's Eve celebrations. The real year begins after January 7th folks - jot that in your calendars (well, PDA since it's 2008... or maybe your phone can do it now too).

When I think of a year I picture a circle made up of all the months. As they go by they are filled in with colour and images, while the new months are grey and bare like an old man. There are those times you can't forget, like 21st parties, engagement parties; those times you remember but aren't sure exactly when it happened and things that were said but you forget why or when.

Months are either slow or fast. Full or empty.

January I was 21 and the year was looking suspiciously good like every year does. Must be because you've just come off the end of another year and you're ready for the next, until it turns out similar by the end since you're tired and waiting for the next (high hopes for next year! That's when things will change, son!). But then, that makes the good-for-365-day years even sweeter.

February I don't remember much of. Maybe I met a girl or maybe it was March. All I know is April I wasn't single and that didn't change until September. In between I became a certified driving instructor and unemployed, just like the last two years.

I learned two important things in 07's 12 months:
You can't rely on waiting for things to happen
To be someone of action requires a lot of work and a lot of resolve
Hot chicks are still hot

Okay, three things.

Australia also has a new Prime Minister, troops are still in Iraq and people are still exponentially stupid. In fact, in thousands of years we have learned nothing. Religion is still absurdly illogical and has yet to embrace the modern era of free speech, particularly in media. Companies make money off satire, wit and sex. Deal with it religion - "evolve."

It's not just religion though; it's groups of people with odd common goals that become skewed for the sake of getting attention. I can imagine the People's Movement for Woman and Christians For Mothers (and Some Fathers, Maybe) Against Little Things turning everything into controversy.

Maybe in 3008 we'll have finally figured it all out. Ha ha!

So I'm a year older and a thousand years wiser.

Good luck in the New Year people and for those still reading me, thank you. You are awesome. I love comments by the way. It gets lonely here. Like I'm standing in front of an empty room talking to myself (or the janitor who doesn't seem to ever go home).

- G ζ.

you can change the way you think
but not the way you feel
though it's strange to think the way we feel
is influenced greatly by our thoughts
and in thousands of years
we have learned nothing