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| Looking ahead with Albert |
Should we make New Year's resolutions? If so, why? If not, why not?
As we mark the time a few apposite words from Mr. E.
and others.I will add to them as the year ticks to its close.
Nota bene - Time travellers are already 4 days into the new year!!!!
There is no particle at the source; particles do not create other particles. (Einstein)
Everything is Energy and that's all there is to it. (Einstein)
What is the summum bonum of knowledge? (It) is understanding what I am.
All people smile in the same language.
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are
evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. (Einstein)
and others.I will add to them as the year ticks to its close.
Nota bene - Time travellers are already 4 days into the new year!!!!
There is no particle at the source; particles do not create other particles. (Einstein)
Everything is Energy and that's all there is to it. (Einstein)
What is the summum bonum of knowledge? (It) is understanding what I am.
All people smile in the same language.
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are
evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. (Einstein)
I don't really make New Year's Resolutions, don't go along with New Year stuff at all. If you want to change things it can be done at any time.
ReplyDeleteThanks Rachel. In that case you will enjoy my 'nota bene'.
DeleteAs eager as I am to move on from the nightmare of 2018, I don't have much faith that the next 12 months will be much better, politically speaking.
ReplyDeleteThanks Shawn. Twelve months is a short time. If we are waiting for the usual suspects to alleviate "the nightmare" we will have to wait a very long time.
DeleteNever make resolutions - feel as Rachel does. Happy New Year though - it can only be better than 2018 - can't it?
ReplyDeleteThanks Pat. So what's to be done? I, like my grandfather read the obituaries and note that people great and small, rich and poor, black and white, clever and simple, sick and healthy, old and young, pass away every second of every day every year. It's a miracle. It's enough. In this place we are subject to the laws of nature. Happy New Year Pat.
DeleteI remember Colin Crompton club chairman at the Wheel-tappers and Shunters ringing the bell and saying: "we are having a resolution". He also rung the bell during one of the "turns" performance and said: "the pies are ready".
ReplyDeleteBut seriously folks. Resolutions are firm decisions. I thinks its good to make plans for next year. Life can be dull if you don't look forward.
Thanks Dave. The best resolution I ever made was in 1988 when I said I'm going to stop smoking and within a couple of weeks I'd done it.
DeleteI gave up smoking when I was 28 and now I am 55. I still miss the cigs though and the number of of times I have got talking to someone after being asked for a light.
ReplyDeleteIt's the first 30 years are the worst ,-)
DeleteActually I don't miss them at all. And I wouldn't thank you for one now as I know if I started smoking it would make me dizzy, give me sore throats and contaminate my hair and clothes with their stale tobacco smell and turn my teeth yellow. A hardened smoker friend of mine had to have his legs amputated. It's not only about lung cancer like they'd have you believe.
Many moons ago in New York's Greenwich Village I asked for "a fag" and several people burst out laughing. Then they explained why. And I said, In England a fag is a cigarette. It was several years later before the word with it's sexual connotation entered the common parlance in our sceptered isles.