It’s like a time machine, only cooler! Welcome to “The Best Of…” a collection of the best posts from my blogs of yesteryear to today. Today we have a post from January 1, 2004. Does it seem like much has changed in the two years since? You decide. As a site news update, we appear to be having some off and on connection issues. I’ll keep you updated.
Welcome to 2004, a year in which the pages and pages of history have yet to be written. A year that we hope will be filled with peace and hope. A year in which we want to feel better than we have for what feels like forever, but in our minds we know it’s just been a little over two years since that day the towers fell.
This is where many feel they can start new and freshly minted. Today marks a time when New Years resolutions are made all over the world, and then quickly broken, put off or just forgotten. It is the year 2004, and the clock is running. What have you done so far today that makes this year any different from last year?
Well, for me I went to Downtown Denver for the very first time with a friend to see the fireworks and just kinda wander around with the other five billion people who had somehow read my mind and had the exact same idea as me. Darn them. Met up with friends, one was very imbibed (as in drunk), and then went back home to rest, relax and just laugh at our friend who seemed to only go further downhill. He’s sleeping in my bed as I’m typing this in the living room. He’ll wake up tomorrow and I hope he doesn’t try and kill me when he has no idea where he is. I should go and strap him into bed. That’ll make him know it’s ok when he wakes up from the haze of last night.
So, 2003 is behind us. Gone. Bye bye. Adios. Good riddance. There was some good times and bad that stalked us through those days and months as we struggled to understand all the pain and suffering the world was still going through. From bombs to shootings and back again, we saw the worst in people. Yet, we also saw the best in those we call our brothers and sisters.
We watched, we listened and read about Iraq and Afghanistan. I think that 2003 proved to be a climatic year for the United States and even the World as a whole. Nobody dropped The Bomb. World War III didn’t break out one sunny December day. And yet, it was a challenging time. Protests against the war, for the war, people hating the US, people loving the US and others just not caring in any way state or form.
Now we look forward to today, tomorrow and the rest of the week. What events will shape this new year, this baby just learning how to walk? Will we experience another World Trade Center? Does War come to our doorstep again? Will there be a cure for cancer or the all disease? Where do we go from where we left off from the last year? How do we begin again from all of that history we’ve carried with us until last night? What does tomorrow bring that yesterday hasn’t already thrown at us? I cannot predict what will happen this year. I can’t even begin to try to foresee what breaking news will splash across our screens in the year two thousand four.
I can look forward to many new adventures, many new tales to tell and unexpected suprises around every corner I turn. And I will be ready to hit them head on. What will you do this year?
What will you do with the time that is given to you?
Do what Frodo did in the Lord of the Rings.
Save the world.
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