Whaddya know...it IS a new year!
So, it's 2006. A new year.
Big deal.
Is it just me or has the "promise of a new year" completely lost its luster? I recall seeing and hearing about New Years past when people were so looking forward to good things happening in the months to come. Anymore, all we have to look forward to is the same old crap.
It's all been done. All anyone can invent anymore are add-ons to things already invented, and any new technology being worked with is used to clean up after all the previous "advances" that messed up the planet to begin with.
We're dealing with the same wars, the same domestic problems, greed, greed, and more greed.
2006. Whoop-de-do. Another year closer to dying.
Oh, don't get me wrong, though. I don't want to make it sound like there's no hope, or that I'd just rather kill myself, or that I don't care about anything. Far from it. There's always hope for the world. It starts by teaching our children how to be good, caring people, and not to put too much value on material things. Those children will grow up and deal with the problems in our world the way they should have been dealt with by us. And with each future generation, we'll get that much closer to having the world we always dreamed of...
...ok, you're right. We're boned.
And as for not caring about anything, here's a few things in the world I care about:
My cat...
My music...
Beauty in the world...
...and someone who understands me.
Ok...I realize the mp3 player is one of the "material things" I raved against earlier, but it's more than that. It contains all my music, and I take it with me just about everywhere I go, so I can escape from the world for a short while. Music has been part of my existance for as long as I can remember, and without it I would surely go mad.
All apologies to anything and anyone I didn't picture as being something I care about. You know I luv ya!
Anyway, here's hoping everyone's 2006 will bring them better things than the previous years have brought. There is a good future out there for us. Let's see if we can find it.
Big deal.
Is it just me or has the "promise of a new year" completely lost its luster? I recall seeing and hearing about New Years past when people were so looking forward to good things happening in the months to come. Anymore, all we have to look forward to is the same old crap.
It's all been done. All anyone can invent anymore are add-ons to things already invented, and any new technology being worked with is used to clean up after all the previous "advances" that messed up the planet to begin with.
We're dealing with the same wars, the same domestic problems, greed, greed, and more greed.
2006. Whoop-de-do. Another year closer to dying.
Oh, don't get me wrong, though. I don't want to make it sound like there's no hope, or that I'd just rather kill myself, or that I don't care about anything. Far from it. There's always hope for the world. It starts by teaching our children how to be good, caring people, and not to put too much value on material things. Those children will grow up and deal with the problems in our world the way they should have been dealt with by us. And with each future generation, we'll get that much closer to having the world we always dreamed of...
...ok, you're right. We're boned.
And as for not caring about anything, here's a few things in the world I care about:
My cat...
My music...
Beauty in the world...
...and someone who understands me.
Ok...I realize the mp3 player is one of the "material things" I raved against earlier, but it's more than that. It contains all my music, and I take it with me just about everywhere I go, so I can escape from the world for a short while. Music has been part of my existance for as long as I can remember, and without it I would surely go mad.
All apologies to anything and anyone I didn't picture as being something I care about. You know I luv ya!
Anyway, here's hoping everyone's 2006 will bring them better things than the previous years have brought. There is a good future out there for us. Let's see if we can find it.
posted by aboynamedjimmy at 11:59 PM
1 Comments:
Good thoughts... the turning of the calendar is symbolic, a gesture that a new year might bring new (which is always to say, "better") things. Personally, I prefer to hinge my renewal on a more natural event: rising in the morning (does this get to be "promise of a new day"--or will Paula sue me for copyright infringement?)
Oh, and I will give a hearty evangelical "A-freakin'-men" to what you said about your mp3 player. It's just a device for carrying around the transcendence that music brings. It doesn't qualify, in my book, as pure materialism! (like my judgment matters, though ;-)
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