It's been a long December and there's reason to believe...

...maybe this year will be better than the last

This time of year always makes me feel contemplative. I think about what happened over the previous twelve months, what I wish I had changed, and how time seems to be speeding up as I get older. I have a lot of vague regrets, things I have difficulty fully identifying to myself, let alone putting into coherent words. But I also begin to have the stirrings of hope as well. In one week it will be a new year, full of promise and new beginnings.

How does this time of year make you feel?

another year wasted away. A new year of more of the same to come...

next, there are always regrets for what we screw up in the old year,but always the opportunity to get it right in the new.

It's a good song that got overplayed when it came out. I remember the first time I heard it, I was working as a headhunter and I'd just gotten my first big commission check after living largely hand-to-mouth for four or five months (in headhunting, you don't get paid until the employee has started the job and has been there for 30 to 90 days). The lyrics:

A long December and there`s reason to believe
Maybe this year will be better than the last
I can`t remember the last thing that you said as you wereleavin`
Now the days go by so fast

And it`s one more day up in the canyons
And it`s one more night in Hollywood
If you think that I could be forgiven...I wish you would

The smell of hospitals in winter
And the feeling that it`s all a lot of oysters, but no pearls
All at once you look across a crowded room
To see the way that light attaches to a girl

And it`s one more day up in the canyons
And it`s one more night in Hollywood
If you think you might come to California...I think you should

Drove up to Hillside Manor sometime after two a.m.
And talked a little while about the year
I guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower,
Makes you talk a little lower about the things you could not showher

And it`s been a long December and there`s reason to believe
Maybe this year will be better than the last
I can`t remember all the times I tried to tell my myself
To hold on to these moments as they pass

And it`s one more day up in the canyon
And it`s one more night in Hollywood
It`s been so long since I`ve seen the ocean...I guess I should

I would listen to it a lot in undergrad when winter break (and a trip back home to CA) was right around the corner

I feel spring around the corner and start buzzing with energy. :)