December 31, 2013

  • To 2014 and beyond....

    It's the last day of 2013 in the great land of Oz and the weather has turned cool after a warm day. It's kind of funny how that seems important in the here and now but on December 31 2014, I will have totally forgotten if the sun was even shining today. 365 days is a long time to remember things which explains why people have diaries, Facebook and blogs. My memory of some stuff is pretty shocking so I tend to rely on external sources to remind me of what happened around me.

    One of the things that I have come to realise this year (especially in the last 6 months) is how much unimportant stuff that I store away in my head gets in the way of getting on with life. If I were a believer in resolutions, I'd be making one that says I'm only going to focus on what is important and stop sweating the petty things. Instead of a resolution, I'm making a commitment to do all of that. If you think that means making massive changes in the way I think or act, you're going to be disappointed. All it means is that I'm just not going to let everyones crap get to me and react in a negative and shouty way.

    Mind you, if you act like a dick or an idiot to or around me, I will call you a dick or an idiot (or both).

    I'm going to be starting 2014 with a 6 day old moustache that I'm trying out to see how it looks. A totally trivial thing, but it will be one of the amusing things that I remember from 2013. Other than that, I don't know what the next 12 months has in store for me. If I did, it would spoil all of the surprises. It may be good, it may be bad or it may just be average. Whichever way the dice falls, I'll look at the positives in it - every cloud has a silver lining, glass half full etc.

    Of course, my wish for those of you who have gotten this far down is that you make the most of whatever 2014 throws at you even if your 2013 wasn't everything you thought it would be. If 2013 met your expectations, do your best to make 2014 a better year. If you're one of those people who is happy just coasting along, keep on trucking.

    So, to my real world friends and family, we've had some great times, some wonderful disagreements and the odd stand up argument - I look forward to more of the same in 2014. To my Facebook friends, keep bemusing me with your drunken status updates, your never ending out of focus smartphone selfies and your inspiring words of wisdom. To my workmates, thanks for putting up with me this year, (especially the last couple of months) and I hope that I have been of some help to you guys. Apparently, that's what I am there for?

    That's it for my 2013 blogging. Not a lot done this year but I hope the little amount of what was written made sense and maybe gave you a laugh or some other kind of feels. I'll do better next year (I hope).

    Have a great end of 2013 party, raise a glass or three to welcome in 2014 and remember don't sweat the petty things but please pet the sweaty things.

    Happy New Year guys and gals.