GOOD RIDDANCE, 2009.
I look forward to throwing off the chains of the old decade and beginning the new. Peace out, wretched 00s and your self-important exposé. Adieu, you mongrel of a year with your sensationalisms, heartbreak, furor, and upset. You have outworn your welcome, 2009.
And WELCOME, newest of years. Cheers to a fresh new decade upon which to make our mark, our moment in history, our next major life changes. Here's to our generation's next ten years, carefully paved by our last with caution, volatilism, and heart. In our last ten years we survived Y2K, 9/11, Katrina, swine flu, and economic crisis; in our next may we exercise our new tools of persistence, hope, love, and a belief our ability to create a better tomorrow.
In lieu of resolutions, choose changes. Seek those moments in which you feel fulfilled, strong, and passionate; pursue them. Pay attention to those strengths you've forgotten you possess; remind yourself how strong you've been, will be, and can be for yourself and others. Find moments of being, and just be. Breathe, rest, and do that which will bring you closer, more intimately connected to your neighbors.
Choose to reuse, recycle, reduce. Make creative choices over consumerist ones. Celebrate a quieter space of life: cook more, laugh more, talk more, plant more, save more, live more.
Filter more. Turn off technology more. Choose local news, visit local parks, meet neighbors for coffee at a local shop. Listen more.
Love more.
Welcome, 2010. You've been a long time coming.
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