Ok, so fore mostly, Happy New
Year everybody! I would have said that through gritted teeth his morning,
though writing this at the end of the day results in a very different post. The
whole Christmas carry on had led me to be a bit of a Grinch by the time I woke
up this morning. I’d had such high hopes for the festive season a few weeks
ago, though nothing went to plan, and by the time New Year’s Day rolled around
I was positively bad tempered and sulky. Determined to be entirely selfish, (other
than dinner hosting duties) I’ve taken New Year’s Day for myself.
I stayed in bed until almost
midday, before transferring myself almost seamlessly, from the bed to the sofa
for an afternoon of film. I was however distracted from my mission by the lure
of the January sales, and subsequently ended up purchasing a Sofa over the
internet, at a steal I might add. Anyway, I then somehow moved onto stripping the
living room wallpaper whilst watching Mary Poppins; a childhood favourite so
upbeat it is impossible to stay immobile. The film; almost fifty years old,
seems incredibly current in some aspects. Take the fact that there’s a young
boy called Peter, whose father works in a bank. He and his sister go to work
with their father one day, and Peter’s encouraged to invest his two pence into
an account. However Peter doesn’t want to give his two pence to the eager
bankers, he wants to feed the birds with it instead. An argument arises,
resulting in Peter’s money taken from his grasp. Customers witness this and
panic ensues soon leading to a riotous mass withdrawal of funds.
As a species we can, I think at
times be a tad possessive and have a somewhat blinkered view of our
experiences. It’s the first, the last, the best, or the worst. When often it's
not, was not and won't be. It may have happened before, and might even happen
again. My mother always had an interest in history and believed much could be
foretold by what had gone before it.
As quoted by Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr,
“The more things change the more they stay the same.”
