Merry Christmas folks!
Although today is not the actual day anymore but hey, there are 12 days of Christmas so everyday should be no less joyful than the last.
I like this time of the year best because it allows me to be reflective. We bring about a facelift to the old and harness in the new. We buy new diaries and finger through their crisp pages of snowy white blanks. We feel the stretch of time once again as we display new table calendars. Don’t get me wrong. I value the old but sometimes we get too hung up about the past that we are unable to move in forth. One step in front and one step back returns you to square one. I was just scrolling through Twitter tweets when I saw one from BBC about New Yorkers getting together on Good Riddance Day to publicly destroy documents of bad memories which made me think it was an awesome idea. I want to write down unpleasant memories on scraps of paper, shred them and start on a clean sheet next year. It sounds like an act of a teenage drama queen to some I’m sure but perhaps what we need is some form of ritual to cleanse our minds. In the very least, I respect ritual.
So in the coming year of 2010, I have quite a few endeavours that I hope to achieve that I have never attempted before. Surprisingly in the list, there are some culinary inclinations.
1. Learn to make surprisingly delicious and healthy salads with pomegranate seeds in them
2. Bring in homemade goodness to gatherings instead of buying them all!
3. Write a zine of short love stories, compile them and give it to intimate friends
4. Repaint the room to a pastel pink and dark brown theme
5. Sleep earlier and drink 8 glasses of water a day
That’s all I can think of for now. I know there are some things which sound pretty mundane and a part of your day-to-day life but it’s not for me and that’s why it made its way to the list. Perhaps the list will get longer. Perhaps the list will never get short but as long as we have tried, the sincerity is all it needs.
