New Year's Day

[white_hart]

I had hoped to see the new year in fast asleep, but the regrettable tendency of people in suburban locations to spend the whole evening letting off sporadic fireworks with a final fusillade at midnight meant that I actually ended up sitting in bed reading Middlemarch and drinking some vile herbal tea I'd dredged up from the back of the cupboard while I waited for things to quieten down. Which was fine, really, apart from the vile herbal tea ('orange blossom', apparently, I think courtesy of a hotel somewhere on the Continent several years ago, which may explain the vileness).

I don't like New Year's Eve at all, and right now I don't much want to look either back or forward. 2018 was a bad year on a global scale and on a personal level saw probably the worst mental health since the horror that was the first half of 2014, and 2019 is overshadowed by the looming horror of Brexit, to say nothing of everything else going on in the world. Wishing people happiness seems like a wanton disregard of reality, but I wish us the strength to get through what the year brings together, and joy in small things at least.

Comments

[mountainkiss]

Those are good wishes. Wishing you the same.

[antisoppist]

Strength.

I was kept awake long into the early hours of the morning by joyful and drunk people loudly conversing as they staggered home from the pub. There are lots of new houses at the bottom of my road and generally I approve of the greater number of people walking past my house and say hello to them, and I have no objections to people saying "good night" and banging their front doors, as that is only reasonable, but loud conversations going on outside for ages at 2 in the morning is a bit much. One of my male neighbours yelled "we can all hear you you know!" and then they shut up.

[white_hart]

At least we live in a cul-de-sac and have good double glazing - loud drunk people are an occasional problem in the summer but not on NYE (apart from when we had neighbours with teenage children who went away on Boxing Day leaving the teenagers on their own, which went pretty much as you'd expect).

I wanted to shout at the firework people but they were probably too far away to hear.

[cmcmck]

Fireworks here started at nine o' clock- a big display too!

Why three hours early ffs?

[miss_s_b]

* hug *

[alithea]

Strength and joy in small things is a very good wish, same to you x

[callmemadam]

joy in small things at least.

A good sentiment and I wish it for you and everyone.

[maia]

*Hugs*

[cybik]

Joy in small things is something I believe can get us through the hardest times. It's why my first tattoo was a flying crow: they look like they as flying for the sheer joy of it, and it is to remind me to take pleasure in what little ways I can.

So I wish the same for you. Strength and the joy in small things. I hope your 2019 is better than you fear and indeed better than you hope!

[hlagol]

may we all survive as best as we are able, and slow the metaphorical bleeding when given the chance.