Happy New Year!
What else can be said? Many will consider 2019 the worst year of their life and be glad it's passed, though, as usual, in almost all ways of importance we are merely changing the label on the continuing saga of life. Ordinarily, the reality is the 1 January is much the same as the day before, the 31 December. There's a slight difference this year in the UK, since today also heralds the final severing of Britain's ties with the EU, certainly an historical landmark. Personally, I feel bereaved.
As the COVID19 pandemic rolls on it may seem we have little to be cheerful about. Few are comforted by the fact we're so much better off in so many ways than our ancestors. Some of us wonder if this state of affairs - being better off than our ancestors - can be sustained, while the younger generation look on and are pretty damn sure they are, and are going to be, a whole lot worse off. And many, and I think this is a problem, don't think very much at all about anything.
Whatever 2021 brings us, many feel it's going to be a challenge getting through it happily with our sanity intact. That is not to say we are doomed to become depressed lunatics, only that that is a real danger. To ward off such a fate for myself I've resolved - tis the season for resolutions, no? - to take a lighter, more frivolous approach to life.
For instance, in the field of politics, I shall no longer harp on about the iniquities of Brexit and the scandalous doings of our government. Instead, I shall simply point out at every possible opportunity, of which there will be many, the sheer bumbling stupidity of the useless, incompetent ignoramuses currently governing - if that's not an overstatement - the UK. In other words, I shall abandon the futility of debating with the gangsters and their foot soldiers for the soul soothing process of taking the piss out of them.
I shall renew and invigorate my quest to get my novels published, but most of all I shall write and write and write, regardless. It's what I do. It's what I am. And my advice to anyone who cares to listen is, figure out what you like to do and do more and more of it, so long as it doesn't involve deliberately inflicting pain or misery on your fellow humans.
In a world gone mad, it's better To Be than Not To Be.
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