2008 is about to end; what to say?
Dec. 31st, 2008 09:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
misscamNew Year's Eve always makes me feel so melancholy.
It's something about all the programs summing up the year, all the talk of what was, and I start to think and remember that while a year can actually pass really fast, a lot can still happen.
2008 was a fairly quiet year for me personally, seeming to consist of mainly work and just everyday stuff. Can't really lay claim to anything very out of the ordinary. Fandomwise, I discovered Battlestar Galactica, and started to challenge my own idea of myself as rather boringly vanilla by vaguely considering an incest pairing and reading orc/human (Jaina/Thrall is the awesome) stuff while waiting for new BSG eps. Still liked my Doctor Who, rediscovered my love for Lord of the Rings and Narnia and poked about lots of other things, some of them embarassing. Also, I played a lot of WoW.
It was a not a bad year for me, but times change as years pass, and sometimes you have okay years, sometimes great, sometimes bad - but they all end inevitably anyway. Perhaps a reminder to endure that which is bad in the hope that that too will pass, and to treasure what you have while you have it, for not even stars are eternal and certainly not a year on Earth.
The world was not always a pretty place in 2008, as illustrated by the current clashes in Palestine - a conflict sadly bereft of easy solutions and sadly filled with too much suffering. Too many died this year from fellow human beings, but too many die every year. The finance crisis, a lot of which was caused by simple greed and lack of oversight, smacked into the world and the damage is still unfolding. A Norwegian journalist died in Afghanistan in an attack perhaps targetting our visiting Foreign Minister; and not even little Norway is safe in the great big world. The US got a new President and maybe new hope. Russia and Georgia nearly went to war, and Iraq still doesn't really know peace. Finland suffered a shock massacre by kids to kids; million of kids starved to death around the world because we share really badly.
But there's also kindness, mercy, attempts to help, drives for peace, charity and the mother of nine children in Congo talking in three children who lost their parents even if she was already starined with the nine she had. There is humanity.
"Keep to the heights!" quoted our King in his yearly New Year's speech, quoting our lost Norwegian journalist and a common saying when walking in the mountains. (Norway having a few of them, as you might know.) Keep to the heights; see where the path leads in terrain of obstacles; have perspective from above so you do not get lost; have sight beyond just where you are standing; lift your eyes.
So. Happy New Year, friends, aquaintances and fellow humans. If your year was bad, may the next be better. If your year was good, may the same happen.
Keep your heights.
Oh, and don't get too hung over in the morning, yeah? (This brought to you by the too many drinks I'm about to have.)
It's something about all the programs summing up the year, all the talk of what was, and I start to think and remember that while a year can actually pass really fast, a lot can still happen.
2008 was a fairly quiet year for me personally, seeming to consist of mainly work and just everyday stuff. Can't really lay claim to anything very out of the ordinary. Fandomwise, I discovered Battlestar Galactica, and started to challenge my own idea of myself as rather boringly vanilla by vaguely considering an incest pairing and reading orc/human (Jaina/Thrall is the awesome) stuff while waiting for new BSG eps. Still liked my Doctor Who, rediscovered my love for Lord of the Rings and Narnia and poked about lots of other things, some of them embarassing. Also, I played a lot of WoW.
It was a not a bad year for me, but times change as years pass, and sometimes you have okay years, sometimes great, sometimes bad - but they all end inevitably anyway. Perhaps a reminder to endure that which is bad in the hope that that too will pass, and to treasure what you have while you have it, for not even stars are eternal and certainly not a year on Earth.
The world was not always a pretty place in 2008, as illustrated by the current clashes in Palestine - a conflict sadly bereft of easy solutions and sadly filled with too much suffering. Too many died this year from fellow human beings, but too many die every year. The finance crisis, a lot of which was caused by simple greed and lack of oversight, smacked into the world and the damage is still unfolding. A Norwegian journalist died in Afghanistan in an attack perhaps targetting our visiting Foreign Minister; and not even little Norway is safe in the great big world. The US got a new President and maybe new hope. Russia and Georgia nearly went to war, and Iraq still doesn't really know peace. Finland suffered a shock massacre by kids to kids; million of kids starved to death around the world because we share really badly.
But there's also kindness, mercy, attempts to help, drives for peace, charity and the mother of nine children in Congo talking in three children who lost their parents even if she was already starined with the nine she had. There is humanity.
"Keep to the heights!" quoted our King in his yearly New Year's speech, quoting our lost Norwegian journalist and a common saying when walking in the mountains. (Norway having a few of them, as you might know.) Keep to the heights; see where the path leads in terrain of obstacles; have perspective from above so you do not get lost; have sight beyond just where you are standing; lift your eyes.
So. Happy New Year, friends, aquaintances and fellow humans. If your year was bad, may the next be better. If your year was good, may the same happen.
Keep your heights.
Oh, and don't get too hung over in the morning, yeah? (This brought to you by the too many drinks I'm about to have.)
