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Feb 9
My New Year's message a couple months late
I came across this while cleaning out some folders and had COMPLETELY forgotten I'd written this!Enjoy.
2009 was a shitty year for a lot of people. It was filled with economic devastation, environmental failure, and uncertain political decisions whose effects won’t be seen until we’re as old as our parents.
I thought it was awesome.
I was homeless; moved from place to place and turned a summer vehicle purchase into a closet/garage/storage unit as I lived the life of a high rolling transient. While bouncing between residential and hotel accommodations, I made some amazing friends out of impossibly cool strangers and family members I’ve never really known before. Unfortunately, I failed to sustain others I should have which leaves something to repair in 2010
~2009 YEARBOOK STYLE~
SUN SUN SUN
SXSW
Pearl Jam
Canucks games
Car rides to Kelowna
Gay Pride Parade
Commercial Drive poetry slams (They don’t rhyme all the time)
PNE + Playland
Evil Dead the Musical
Beach parties
Fallout Boy
Chai Teas at that place
Net Tuesdays
Attempting to make Mad Men drinks
It was a good year.
I tried to imagine what my life would’ve looked like if I’d accepted that job in Kelowna back in 2008 and not applied for an internship in downtown Vancouver. I can’t. Sure, I have a few regrets and an uncertain future but that’s alright. What’s else is the point of being right here, right now? To screw up, make mistakes, and have a lifetime in experiences before I get too old to know better.
Now everyone’s opened their new calendar—which are 50-75% off now—and we’re all trying to figure out what comes next. However, just remember that 2010 is an arbitrary number determined 418 years ago by a bunch of people who just wanted a more accurate schedule. Unfortunately, nowadays it’s peddled as a new beginning to people looking for reasons to procrastinate change. Forget it. Do what you want to do, when you want to do it. If the idea of a new decade gives you a moment of reflection or inspiration then that’s great but it doesn’t deserve a second thought. You don’t have to wait until New Year’s eve to kiss the girl or a decade’s anniversary to quit your job. Every day is an opportunity to do that. Drink some champagne on June 22 or stay up past midnight on February 18th. If you wait, it probably isn’t going to happen.
Happy New Year, 6th Night of Galactic cycle and Year of the Ox
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