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Wrapping up
Dec. 29th, 2006 09:30 amIn my first post of this year, I wrote: Seems like nearly everyone and their dog had a crappy 2005. As I scrolled through my friends page today, it was a similar refrain: That sucked. Let's have a better one this time. And to my few and lucky friends who did have a great year, here's hoping for more of the same for you. For the rest of us, brush off and move on.
I don't know how many of us had a better one. I think a lot of us had ups and downs. I think that's just the way life is, and if we expect a good year we might not get it, but sure as hell we'll get a bad year if we just lie down and accept whatever life gives us. If I want a better next year, I can't just hope for it, I have to make it. Brushing off and moving on is a good step, but I have to do more with my hands (physically and metaphorically) than just brush off.
I want to make some differences, some changes. Some will be easy, some will be hard, and it's not always the hard changes that will make the most difference to the world in general. I want to take up a smaller space and yet make a bigger impact.
Some of my changes involve money and how I use it. 2007 will see me making a concentrated effort to use my dollars to vote. It was an amazing thing to see my vote make a difference in November, but if I pat myself on the back for that two-minute effort, it will all be for nothing. I will make every effort possible to ensure that I don't spend a dime at Wal-Mart, and as little money as possible at any non-locally owned store in general. In order to use less gas, I will be making at the most two trips a month to the south side of town, and that includes trips to the fabric store.
Last month,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rougewench told me I really needed to come with her to catch the Guy Forsyth show at the Jazzhaus. I picked up his most recent CD and the first track on it never fails to choke me up. This time next year I want to know that I did everything I could do (within reason and in good conscience) to slow down if not reverse this trend of American life. At the end of 2007, I want to hear this song and be pissed off at all the lazy bastards out there who can't be bothered to fight the system. At the end of 2007, I want to hear this song and not feel my heart breaking because I'm one of the lazy bastards. At the end of 2007, I want to feel like I made a difference in the world. ( Long Long Time )
I don't know how many of us had a better one. I think a lot of us had ups and downs. I think that's just the way life is, and if we expect a good year we might not get it, but sure as hell we'll get a bad year if we just lie down and accept whatever life gives us. If I want a better next year, I can't just hope for it, I have to make it. Brushing off and moving on is a good step, but I have to do more with my hands (physically and metaphorically) than just brush off.
I want to make some differences, some changes. Some will be easy, some will be hard, and it's not always the hard changes that will make the most difference to the world in general. I want to take up a smaller space and yet make a bigger impact.
Some of my changes involve money and how I use it. 2007 will see me making a concentrated effort to use my dollars to vote. It was an amazing thing to see my vote make a difference in November, but if I pat myself on the back for that two-minute effort, it will all be for nothing. I will make every effort possible to ensure that I don't spend a dime at Wal-Mart, and as little money as possible at any non-locally owned store in general. In order to use less gas, I will be making at the most two trips a month to the south side of town, and that includes trips to the fabric store.
Last month,
rougewench told me I really needed to come with her to catch the Guy Forsyth show at the Jazzhaus. I picked up his most recent CD and the first track on it never fails to choke me up. This time next year I want to know that I did everything I could do (within reason and in good conscience) to slow down if not reverse this trend of American life. At the end of 2007, I want to hear this song and be pissed off at all the lazy bastards out there who can't be bothered to fight the system. At the end of 2007, I want to hear this song and not feel my heart breaking because I'm one of the lazy bastards. At the end of 2007, I want to feel like I made a difference in the world. ( Long Long Time )