New Year Coming

It seems hard to believe, but the new year is almost upon us once again. This is not something unusual. Most of us think similar thoughts at this time of year. I always consider each year coming as a surprise. Whe I was a child I counted forward the years and discovered that the turn of the millenium would come in my lifetime. With a little more math, I realized that I would be twenty-seven. That little knowledge tidbit set me on my course and I don’t think that I ever recalculated. Year 2000 came and went. None of the appliances I had suffered any programming problems, and life went on.

Except in a way, I didn’t. I certainly don’t feel twenty-seven. I also don’t count forward in the future either. I don’t look forward to graduating college, or raising kids, or their graduations. Everything comes at this slightly startling suprise that time has actually moved on.

This year is no exception. It has been full of things, just like the next one will be. I don’t set goals or make lists. I just hope to live as much in each moment as I can.