One of my favorite John Lennon songs.
How many of you had this feeling today?
Or how many of you feel that today seems like any other day?
I’m interested to know.
Last night I went to sleep virtually forgetting that it was New Year’s Eve.
What a freeing feeling it would be, to think the calendar is turning and everything will be new again. And why NOT feel that way?
Please let me know your thoughts.
Pam Cannito says
It’s that proverbial line drawn in the sand. Whether you choose to step over it, dig your toes under it or stay firmly planted is just a personal choice that fluctuates year after year, month after month and week after week.
That, “I’ve had enough of being overweight” line seems to be a weekly one that I cross over every Monday, almost enough times in a year to actually burn a few calories!
The “I’m tired of being alone” line seems to be more on the monthly jump frequency, perhaps because looking for a “mate” at this stage of the game is pretty exhausting and takes a few weeks to get over the first week of failure (enter the binge eating creating line one).
But that New Year…. that JANUARY 1ST…. ahhh that is the line that I allow myself to cheerfully leap over offering chance for NEW hope, NEW happiness, forgiveness of the past years failures though oddly I never seem to use DECEMBER 31ST to cheer the current years triumphs…. had there been any…. any at all?
So I jump over that line on January 1… I choose to believe that happiness could lay ahead… arriving slowly as the temperature warms the earth and “sand” and that line becomes less and less defined until the frozen earth keeps it’s shape again when I draw it on January 1.
Good thing I don’t live in the tropics!
jane says
Pam, as always, an insightful comment, all your points are well taken. In terms of binge eating – I’m reminded of the time when we were 12 and we ate a whole can of Duncan Hines chocolate frosting. Back then, with all our running around the farm and neighborhood, it didn’t stick to us, like it might now. xoxo Jane