I haven't looked back at even vs. odd years, but that seems like a fun
exercise to pass the time. When I was a child my best friend said "odd years
go by faster than even years." I said I thought the opposite; that even years
go by faster...at this point I don't know.
A good Resolution, were I to play that game, would be to Stop Overthinking.
The past year or so I've had way too much coffee with not nearly enough food:
this led to overthinking, which worsened Depression, which led to some
combination of nihilism and cynicism ("none of this makes sense and my life
has no meaning.")
Now, I have already concluded quite some time ago that each individual decides
"The Meaning of Life", whether it's to serve some deity, to serve humanity, or
42; i.e. it's completely arbitrary.
However when one is surrounded by a veritable soup of idiots intermingled with
morons, it's difficult to assign any meaning to life. But I'm getting there...
I don't fancy rituals, but I might as well ride the wave with this one. A new
year: a symbolic "blank canvas" or "clean slate" of sorts (emphasis on "sorts")
..I could use that. Let's make this year better than the last one.
