That's another year gone. It's hard for me to believe that it's actually the dawning of 2015.
I remember when I was a kid, way back when the crust was still cooling and we used to ride mammoths to school, that when you mentioned the year 2000 it was code for the far distant future, when we'd have flying cars and robots and colonies on the moon. We still don't have anything like that, and here it is 2015.
Just as impossible as it was to predict the future in the years before the turn of the century, it's impossible to know for sure what's on the horizon even now. Back in the 1980s not many of us could have predicted the Internet or iPads or Global Warming or Nicki Minaj. But here we are at the tail end of 2014, and all of those things are undeniable realities.
I don't know what's coming up, and anybody who says they do is full of it. But I think it's pretty undeniable that we as a species are up against some big challenges in the coming decades. Foremost amongst these, I think are Global Warming and Nicki Minaj. Of course, I'm just joking about one of those.
As everybody knows, the New Year is a great time not just to look back, but to look ahead to our own personal challenges. Being nearly perfect myself, I don't usually have to resolve to do things that will make me a better person. But I do understand that those less perfect than myself often make promises to themselves about what they plan to accomplish in the new year.
If you're one of those people, I wish you luck. Statistically speaking, most people never carry though with their new year's resolutions. And who can blame them. If those things were easy to do, they'd already be doing them.
If you make resolutions and don't follow through with them, I say don't worry too much about it. Just think of all those people who have resolved to do things in their own lives that you already do in yours. Those poor saps. They must really be pathetic.
And so it goes, down and down. Just imagine that poor amoeba way down on the bottom, who resolves every year to grow just one more cell. At least you're not that poor schmuck.
So, here on the cusp of 2015, I wish all of you out there a very happy New Year. Good luck with all your resolutions, and if you don't achieve all your goals try not to beat yourself up too much.
At least you're not an amoeba.
Sean Vale
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