out 08 - in 09

We're getting closer to the famous midnight, the one celebrated worldwide. What will you be doing at midnight? Kissing your lover, wishing for a lover to kiss or missing your lover far away...



Or perhaps you're more the festive type that will be decked in boas, funny glasses and a head piece of some sort breaking your streamers, blowing your noise makers and shouting for the world to hear "HAPPY NEW YEAR!"



Whatever the case may be, raise your glass in toast to the wondrous possibilities of the near and distant future. To friendships to come, cultivating the ones you have, weeding out those that are fading, to family no matter how strong or weak the relationship, to love, loyalty, honesty and integrity all through out your life and of those that surround you. This is a new dawn, grasp it!



On a semi-side note: I've never been one for listing out an annual To-Do list and calling them resolutions because the majority were really meant for short-term or life happens and the items are no longer feasible. However, bringing in the new year does cause me to reflect on the pros and cons of the year ending and how to learn from them and apply those lessons going forward. A big one this time around is Friendships. As you may have gathered from some of my previous entries, my friends mean a lot to me. I put a lot of emotion and time and energy into all of my relationships but especially those that reciprocate and have been there for me during difficult times. So going forward I'm going to cultivate the relationships that are barely there, spend more quality time with the friends that have been there, hopefully create a couple of new friends and sever the ones that are only sucking my life source away.