I appreciate January 1st for this reason: Even if I've neglected to seek some serious perspective on every other day of the year, at least on this day, on this first day of the new year, something forces me to lift my head and acknowledge all that I have or haven't made of my life in the past twelve months.
I can say without a single doubt that 2007 takes the place as my most difficult year to date. But you know, I wouldn't change a thing. Because even though it was a grueling ride, there was a lot of sweetness along the way, too. And I understand that the wonderful moments have to be fleeting, because if they weren't, they wouldn't mean as much, would they?
This is me, loving and appreciating all of life's rises and falls. Lovers come and go, parents and friends die, babies are born, jobs end and begin again, money ebbs and flows, and that's what it's all about. So goodbye, 2007, and hello, 2008. I hope that I'm still here on January 1, 2009, and that I'm happy and healthy, and that I'm even more in love with life than I am right now, at the very moment that I write this.
Times Square New Year's BallPhoto: Ian Hardy
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