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olorielHappy New Year, one and all!
I had the worst car drive of my life going back home from our New Year's celebrations. The fog was so thick that in some places you couldn't see more than three meters ahead. Three meters is nothing when you're in a car. A lot of the time, I was almost driving blind, with only the tiniest hints as to where the road was. Obviously, the correct choice would have been stopping by the side and waiting for the FOG OF DOOOOM to lift (however long that would take). But with temperatures around zero, that choice was as unattractive as taking my chances on the road. Partly because whenever I thought I had to stop, suddenly we'd hit a stretch of road with almost no fog, so we could go on nicely. Until the next bank of thick fog. Miraculously, we were not involved in any of the accidents that happened last night (in spite of drunk people crossing roads carelessly or burning off late fireworks, because that's the sort of thing you do in the middle of the road in thick fog, of course!). We went at a snail's pace in order to be able to brake or correct mistakes. It was terrifying. For the last bit, in order to find the way down the hill, Jörg walked ahead of the car. Fortunately he was wearing a black jacket, because everything else was swallowed up by the fog as soon as he got more than two meters ahead.
In conclusion, I hope we didn't use up all our good luck for 2015 at once, is all.
This morning, of course, the sun was shining bright from a clear sky.
Felix had so been looking forward to the fireworks and managed to stay up (and friendly) all evening, but he found the actual fireworks too loud and fled back inside.
I'm currently stumped at coming up with deep thoughts or intelligent New Year's wishes, so I'm gonna quote the ever-wise Neil Gaiman:
Be kind to yourself in the year ahead.
Remember to forgive yourself, and to forgive others. It's too easy to be outraged these days, so much harder to change things, to reach out, to understand.
Try to make your time matter: minutes and hours and days and weeks can blow away like dead leaves, with nothing to show but time you spent not quite ever doing things, or time you spent waiting to begin.
Meet new people and talk to them. Make new things and show them to people who might enjoy them.
Hug too much. Smile too much. And, when you can, love.
That sounds like a good overall New Year's resolution, so let's go for that.
I had the worst car drive of my life going back home from our New Year's celebrations. The fog was so thick that in some places you couldn't see more than three meters ahead. Three meters is nothing when you're in a car. A lot of the time, I was almost driving blind, with only the tiniest hints as to where the road was. Obviously, the correct choice would have been stopping by the side and waiting for the FOG OF DOOOOM to lift (however long that would take). But with temperatures around zero, that choice was as unattractive as taking my chances on the road. Partly because whenever I thought I had to stop, suddenly we'd hit a stretch of road with almost no fog, so we could go on nicely. Until the next bank of thick fog. Miraculously, we were not involved in any of the accidents that happened last night (in spite of drunk people crossing roads carelessly or burning off late fireworks, because that's the sort of thing you do in the middle of the road in thick fog, of course!). We went at a snail's pace in order to be able to brake or correct mistakes. It was terrifying. For the last bit, in order to find the way down the hill, Jörg walked ahead of the car. Fortunately he was wearing a black jacket, because everything else was swallowed up by the fog as soon as he got more than two meters ahead.
In conclusion, I hope we didn't use up all our good luck for 2015 at once, is all.
This morning, of course, the sun was shining bright from a clear sky.
Felix had so been looking forward to the fireworks and managed to stay up (and friendly) all evening, but he found the actual fireworks too loud and fled back inside.
I'm currently stumped at coming up with deep thoughts or intelligent New Year's wishes, so I'm gonna quote the ever-wise Neil Gaiman:
Be kind to yourself in the year ahead.
Remember to forgive yourself, and to forgive others. It's too easy to be outraged these days, so much harder to change things, to reach out, to understand.
Try to make your time matter: minutes and hours and days and weeks can blow away like dead leaves, with nothing to show but time you spent not quite ever doing things, or time you spent waiting to begin.
Meet new people and talk to them. Make new things and show them to people who might enjoy them.
Hug too much. Smile too much. And, when you can, love.
That sounds like a good overall New Year's resolution, so let's go for that.
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Date: 2015-01-01 01:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-01-05 06:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-01-01 04:42 pm (UTC)Eek! Just reading about your drive had me on the edge of my seat.
Those are very apt words; thank you for copy/pasting them. I need to keep them in mind.
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Date: 2015-01-05 06:38 pm (UTC)Yeah, me too. You're very welcome!
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Date: 2015-01-05 07:26 pm (UTC)Add in fog and I'm cringing just thinking about it.
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Date: 2015-01-01 07:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-01-05 06:31 pm (UTC)Cheers to you, too. So far, I'm not too impressed with this year, but it can always get better, right?