Its that time of the year when one has a lot of time on their hands...A body I have been working hard at for the whole year can now be paraded at the beach and long street... Reading a book or two from cover to cover in a couple of days...Enjoying cocktails in a company of great friends with no worry in the world except where I am going for drinks and and what I am wearing at the summer hot spot..
The are all the things that we seem to do every festive summer holiday, of course for some with an occasional summer love. But then the 31st approaches with the promise of great parties, endless binging and the hope of that magical kiss at tick of Midnight.
But stands out about this time besides the happy-go-round-partying, is the reflection on the year the seem to be on everyone minds. I started mine with a list only existant in my mind and it included quiting smoiking, writting more and the general quitting of bad habits. The it dawned on me that the reason I went into a mini depression about September was because the whole I did not live up to all the endless goals I had set up for myself. I had made so many of them that by the time I got to the half year I realised that none of them had come to fruition.
The I started a simple list that I knew that I will definately achieve. This list was so easy that I did not need to apply any form of scientific calculations and myriad experiements to know how to get to the other side.
I simply made a promise to myself to be happy...no matter how that came about, my simple New Year's resolution was to be happy and a little kinder to myself. This include not running after poeple and things that seem to care more about themselves than me. Not putting myself in harms way. Doing things at my pace and trying not to impress everyone. Letting myeself become me and simply enjoy eac day as it come.
As the year nears it's demise, I seem to come closer to my happiness. Even in small things I seem to be at the door of absolute joy and I hope that I can always remember the simple formula...TO BE KIND TO MYSELF WITHOU COMPROMISE...
Happy New Year and May Your Wishes Come True...
She is conspiring with the owners of Cubana to limit the black folk in this really beautifull but complicated city... I am sure they around bars all day to come up with this crap, that probably why they don't want us to drink between 2am and 11am...they are night riders...
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