Champagne Anyone?

The days leading up to new-year past in a blur. I don’t really know why I love new-year so much. Perhaps it is the fireworks exploding with colorful lights, or every ones exiting faces counting down the numbers waiting for a brand new year. Or maybe I just loved our friend’s passed memories in their year that was passing so quickly. But this year our house would be filled with people watching the fireworks shouting “happy new-year!” We lived very close to the Petronius Towers and it was easy to see the fireworks from or balcony. 4 hours, 3 hours, 2 hours, 1 hour! I couldn’t wait. I guess my mom became a little annoyed with me after I started to ask her what time it was every 30 minutes.

Finally it was time to head to the the balcony. Sadly this year they had no count down. So that took away a little fun out of the new-year. We were all talking and laughing together and we all turned our heads quickly to the first sound of the very first firework. I remember what color it was too. Bright red, or was it yellow? Blue? Okay. I don’t remember at all. I fell a bit sad though when it ended because I would have to wait a whole year before new-year again. I thought that this had been the quickest year I had ever lived. Everything went by so quickly. And sometimes I wished I could go back and live that one day that was so fun or so exiting.

12:01. January 1, 2009, goodbye 2008. I knew it would be annoying writing 09 on my paper for classes because I was so used to 08. And that it would be annoying erasing 08 and writing 09. The year that I had loved so much was gone. But I knew I would have to make the most of my year of 2009. This brings me to my new-year’s resolution. To make the most of my year, and live everyday like it was my last.