Making a dash to the finish line....

It is a blur...and I can barely see it through the winter mist.
But I am certain it is not a figment of my imagination...
and I am making a dash to the finish line...

When I crossover the line so fine,
I pull the satin ribbon along....
willingly it snaps free and gaily entangles around my sprinting frame

I look down at it and the words on the ribbon are clear to me now...
'2006 - The year that was...'

A little premature for a 'goodbye 2006' post, but that's the best part about blogging...this is my space, I can write what I feel like, when I feel like it! :) I make the rules here and I don't have to wait for December to roll out a '2006 special edition'. I feel a sense of urgency to roll down the curtains on my 2006 and I think I will do it now, when I have the time. The way the past 11 months have gone by (even before I got used to writing 2006 in checks and under my signatures) I feel December will not even care to herald itself and I won't even know! I might as well get prepared to put 2007 date stamps.

I wonder why the whole world (including me) makes such a big deal about a new year. Why is it that every December we sit and reminisce about the year gone by and make resolutions about the new year? But then, if these unwritten rules weren't followed, we would we buying 'special editions' of magazines throughout out the year and then Santa/God/X would have an administrative nightmare with resolutions coming in every now and then! On the other hand people might have made more frequent attempts (as opposed to once in a year) to 'turn into a better leaf' thus increasing the probability of turning the world into a better place.

In spite of all that I said above, I still find myself deriving comfort from choosing the end of the year to reminisce and to look forward to 2007 and hoping (as always) that it will bring all that I ever wished for! That, I guess, is what keeps us all going year after year. If I remembered all that I hoped/prayed/asked for on January 1st in the years gone by, I probably wouldn't be very hopeful this new year. If I held a grudge against fate I wouldn't be blindly making a dash to the finish.

While closing the book of accounts for 2006, all I want to feel is acceptance and comfort. I don't want to feel nagged that the balance sheet is not perfectly balanced. All I want to take away is a little more courage to face what is to come and the ability to be unperturbed by any future discrepancies in the balance sheet.