Yu Ting wrote a rather
sentimental post in lieu of the new year that for some reason, seemed so tardy for the past few months.
Well, the day is here. The eve of 2006 and the end of 2005, where crossroads are met, arguments are brought over and testimonials accumulated are read and re-read, over and over again.
So anyway, the end has finally come forth in its dirty shoes and awfully smudged mascara, all ready to go through a series of car washes and come out all new to greet us with a shiny new suit and a glistening gold badge that says,
2006. And as we look back in its tracks, we find fallen green leaves of a christmas tree, red shiny decorative balls next to a clay-angel with a broken finger and remnants of our past hiding but haunting in the little cracks of the floor. Just like our famed boogey-man.
We now come to realize the life we are about to leave behind, because whether we admit it or not, has changed in every way possible. Yes, changed by 2005, the very thing that took us by the hips and danced as 2004 went away...
It's a shining moment to stand on this Eve and look far back to the little things we've done, the major and minor disappointments and to the little happy thoughts and acts that we've been shyly putting forth. And we realize that,
I've never been this cheerful/sad and that
it's finally all over.
Yes, t'was a shining moment. It may have its share of despairing but soon we should realize that
time and tide waits for no man and that power comes by faith and growth.
2006 beckons to us in less than 13 hours now. Whatever plans you have, be it partying all night and stampeding into the new year or lying in bed or with your family spending some quiet time as you greet the new year, do prepare your mind for a similar set of 2005. For life's but a rat-race, a tin box filled with little wooden white mice that you'd take out every new year to wind it up and set loose into the world.
Happy New Year dear people, and may God bless you in his strange but familiar ways...