Beautiful Clarity: New Year's Day

jueves, 1 de enero 2004

So it's a new year. New years always seems to come like a shy little girl. You don't quite notice it's there and then shaboom! It's new years. I tend to like to not notice until 2 or 3 and let it soak in. Usually it doesn't hit me till the next day. It's more fun like that I guess. The anticipation and expectation is not what I really enjoy the most. It's usually more disappointing than anything else.

So I was commenting today to someone here in Guate, I'm in Guatemala city at the moment, that new years day always seems prettier than most days. Everything seems more colourful. More full of life. More vibrant. Perhaps it's the quasi catatonic state of either sleepiness or just having been drinking the night before. Either way, I've always seemed to pass new years day with laziness. It's a slow day, that wanders back and forth and never disappoints because well it's new years day. A new beginning. Perhaps that's why I don't like new years eve that much. It's an end. I'm of the firm conviction that things shouldn't end. There's no reason. They just keep going in varying states. The countdown is just like a hateful little child to me. It reminds you of everything you haven't achieved. Is that really what you want to be doing? Anyways. Today is new years day and it has been a lovely one.