“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.”
~ Bill Vaughn
Today is New Year's Eve. It's the last official day of the year and the sixth day in that week that sits low in the shadow of the all important Christmas Day. By the twenty-fifth of December it always feels as if the year might as well just wrap it up.
We humans do love to create our little pockets of time. We demarcate our daily lives into little bite size pieces, we accept our television programming at regulation lengths, and we take special note of changes that affect us in our check writing or at tax time. Within the realm of all of the seasonal celebrations, we also gain the opportunity to reflect. Some seek solace in their financial gains while others look inward, perhaps finding themselves more satisfied with that figure in the mirror than they were 365 days earlier.
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