New Year’s Day – It’s all about me!

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.”