{"id":6395,"date":"2009-01-01T10:29:10","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T17:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=6395"},"modified":"2009-01-01T10:39:41","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T17:39:41","slug":"happy-new-ah-to-hell-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/6395\/happy-new-ah-to-hell-with-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New… ah, to hell with it."},"content":{"rendered":"

Please, allow me to be the very first to wish you a Happy New Year!\u00a0 What’s that?\u00a0 Not the first huh; the second?\u00a0 The tenth?\u00a0 Well just forget it then.\u00a0 Truth be told “Happy New Year” is kind of silly isn’t it?\u00a0 I mean, it’s just an imaginary line drawn in a calendar.\u00a0 The time of year we just know we’re going to write the wrong date on our checks and when we do we’re still surprised by it: “Look what I did here Mac, I was writing out a check and I wrote ’08 instead of ’09!\u00a0 Can you believe it!\u00a0 Golly, I wonder how many more times I’ll make that mistake.”\u00a0 (Note of explanation for the younger readers out there: we used to carry around these little pads called checkbooks.\u00a0 They were nicely encased in a faux leather little cover and you would write on one of the sheets in this pad a kind of IOU that your bank would pay out of your account.\u00a0 It had the benefit, especially right after the holidays, of creating a little time between when you paid something and when you necessarily had to have the actual cash.\u00a0 You could not use them for online purchases, which was OK because the world was offline at the time.)<\/p>\n

Where was I?\u00a0 Oh yeah: saying Happy New Year on this day is a bit arbitrary.\u00a0 When you think about it, we begin a new year every single day of our lives.\u00a0 As a matter of fact, we begin a new life<\/em> every single day of our lives.\u00a0 Why don’t we wish each other Happy New Life each day instead of Good Morning?\u00a0 Wouldn’t that put a much finer point on the power of today?\u00a0 Oh I know what you’re thinking: “arbitrary or not, this is the time for Resolutions.”\u00a0 Have you read the statistics on New Year’s resolutions?\u00a0 Do you know how many are broken within hours of their creation?\u00a0 (If so, please go ahead and post them in the comments because I didn’t bother to look them up – one of my resolutions is to Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Please, allow me to be the very first to wish you a Happy New Year!\u00a0 What’s that?\u00a0 Not the first huh; the second?\u00a0 The tenth?\u00a0 Well just forget it then.\u00a0 Truth be told “Happy New Year” is kind of silly isn’t it?\u00a0 I mean, it’s just an imaginary line drawn in a calendar.\u00a0 The time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-flourishing","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15522,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15522\/me-in-2012-writing-splendors-sound-track-among-other-things\/","url_meta":{"origin":6395,"position":0},"title":"Me in 2012: Writing Splendor’s sound-track, among other things.","author":"Greg Swann","date":"January 1, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been living for years now with my daily calendar system of staying focused on my goals. 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