Who doesn’t love getting something new?<\/p>\n
New seems so full of promise. Here comes a new year! It’s never been here before. What will it contain?<\/p>\n
I know I love to think about new things and what possibilities could be created.<\/p>\n
Many many times I’ve looked and new years and said “THIS year I will be different and change..”<\/p>\n
Reminds me of that old joke<\/p>\n
How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb?<\/p>\n
One<\/p>\n
But it really has to want to change<\/p>\n
I’m sick of feeling shame and regret. I don’t care anymore. I don’t want to be motivated by self-disgust or a feeling that there is something wrong with me.<\/p>\n
I’m just who I am, and pretty much who I always have been.<\/p>\n
I want to fill this year with stuff that is fun and even more me than I’ve ever \u00a0been before.<\/p>\n
Which things on my ‘bucket list’ will get crossed off this year?<\/p>\n
Which will get added?<\/p>\n
That’s probably the best part, I think. Coming up with new ideas of things I’d love to do.<\/p>\n
A friend of mine went on a rant about how some people annoy him, giving little biting indightments of their flawed behavior. I said “You have so many things you could make with your brains. Why use them to be irritated? Especially since I know you can work up an irritated annoyance to last weeks, with a half life of years.”<\/p>\n
He laughed at himself.<\/p>\n
We are all like that. I know I can hold on to a slight or an annoyance and polish it, bringing out in my mind facets of how WRONG this or that person was.<\/p>\n
What a ridiculous use of my thoughts.<\/p>\n
I would rather thing of good ideas than rehash bad ones.<\/p>\n
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