"It only happens once a year"
Hello blog readers! Sorry I haven't been around in a while, but you know what it's like when you have school work, Christmas, New Years and all these other things rushing at you... time seems to slip away too quickly but I'm back now so fear not! Your insight into my life can resume without you having missing out on much (I got rejected by CSSD, oh and I auditioned for Kent Uni, I started to learn to drive and yeah like I said, not much)
So it's not long to 2012, my lucky year, every year I try to make resolutions (this is the first year I've called them that not revolutions) however this year I feel like I'm wasting my time. A New Year doesn't change anything, people believe that when the clock strikes 12, when the fireworks illuminate the sky and that big ball drops in Times Square that from then on they have a second chance, an excuse to change who they are. When I look back on my year I see so many mistakes, so many good and bad mistakes that define 2011.
My New Years resolutions amounted to nothing in the end, on January 1st 2011 I was exactly the same person I was one minute earlier on December 31st 2010. I may have become a minute older and I may have decided to stop eating bread but I still had brown hair, multi-coloured eyes and a size 12 body. I still loved Disney and drama and anything that sparkled. That isn't a bad thing.
New Years gives hope to a lot of people, to families ripped apart by tragedy, to solders coming home, to Year 13 students who are planning on going to University. I think I admire that, how as a community we all come together on one night. No matter who we are to celebrate the transition between old and new. Many say this about Christmas too, but that's not right because of the many religions, once upon a time when everybody in a community was Christian or Muslim or Jewish they would all be celebrating the same festivals at the same time, but for years we have been mixed together in a cultural and religious explosion (Possibly one of the best explosions in our global community) So New year really is the time we come together, religion has no impact on the changing of the years and so in a way it does what we strive to do everyday. It puts aside our differences and creates a link between everyone.
It is because of this that on this one night of the year we all come together in realisation that our world, our civilisation has made it through another winter, another spring, another Autumn and another Summer and we look at those fireworks and we believe, truly and utterly that this is the moment that change happens.
I may not be making resolutions this year, but I will be doing one thing. I will look at the clock, smile to my friends and think about how I made it through the year. I passed my exams, I applied to University, I made friends and lost friends and I got a kitten! That was my year, and I may not remember every detail of it this time next year, but I can look back and know that it must have had its highs and low and that no matter what I made it to 2012.
So Happy New Year blog readers, I hope you have a fantastic evening whatever you have planned and I hope more than anything that your 2012 lives up to all your expectations and hopes.
Lots of love
HarrietCorey
