As one gets older the ‘New Year’, intended to offer new opportunities, generally only reminds us of opportunities lost and weight found. As a result of both, resolutions are made in hopes that one will be more adventurous, change jobs or spouses, join a gym or actually go the gym to which annual dues are paid. These goals and others like them are generally quite lofty and typically unattainable, however, sound like the right thing to say when sipping champagne with friends at midnight.
When the champagne flutes are washed and the leftovers are finally eaten (most likely by you), you realize this year probably won’t be much different from last. For that fact, I’d like to make a toast, “To you as you are!”
Life is good for most of us most of the time, however, it can really be as good as we want it to be all of the time. It’s all about perspective. As I told D-Dog, “May 2014 be full of smiling assholes.” I wish the same for all of you. Don’t let people or situations get you down. To quote a song from my childhood, “If you chance to meet a frown…..turn it upside down.”
Your pants don’t fit? Who cares? That’s why rubber bands (maternity secret) and extra fabric exist! You’re not adventurous? Fine with me! People are always in need of housesitters, babysitters, petsitters and the like. Job sucks? Get in (unemployment) line! Spouse sucks? Does she swallow?
I know there are some major douchebags in this world and it might be a better place if they behaved differently, but sometimes their behavior makes us look better. And who doesn’t like to look better? Besides, douchebags are just clowns with frowns – turn ’em upside down, smiling assholes.
For 2014, don’t aim to be lean, strive to clean or be less obscene. Instead, be seen! Whether by yourself or others – see you as the amazing person or complete fuck up that you are. To you as you are!