"Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams"

 

Hello 2021!!!!  Remember us? The human race?  You know the human race who has been trying to juggle their sub-conscientious, pre-occupations mixed with thinking of loved ones and all of the things we would have liked to have done but did not because...?  Let's change all of that. 

I have tried to convince myself of so many things in the past year... 

"I did not really need that extra slice of pizza." 

 "Really, really, I am fine.  Just let me soak in the tub another 20 minutes." 

 "I really should not have that extra glass of wine...but ok."

"Who needs people?  I mean, I'm only around them 100 percent of the time."

"Back to the tub..."

But 2021, here is something you do not know...I have become more tolerant, more patient and less worried about what I can not control.  As much as I would love to have control over every single aspect of my life, that is a "mission impossible."   In fact, I think the people who scare me the most are the people who behave like they have everything under control.  They are beyond organized and strive each and every day for perfection.  It is an impossible task to maintain a high level of perfection.   Now, on the flip side of this rationale is we can never ignore hard work and diligence as a key to a better life and we shouldn't be bitter or jealous of those who strive to work hard.  In fact, bitterness, resentment and anger are all part of the mantra we should be dispelling.  These are the emotions or the behaviors that should hopefully disappear in 2021.

Speaking of disappearing...I would guess that many of us have felt as though we have disappeared in a sense.  We have covered up and stayed away from those who are closest to our heart out of love for the sake of their health and ours.  Then...January 6, 2021 showed us that we have more to learn...sadly or in fact, we haven't learned a damn thing.  Why?

This is 2021 folks.  We can choose whatever political beliefs with a free conscience.  We can support politically, those values that we comfortable in following.  But violence? Insurrection?  The death nail was the Confederate flage being brought into the very place that supported the equality of all in this country.  The Civil War was the result of a democracy that eventually came to its senses.

Today, noone can afford to be invisible any longer.  The task at hand for all us living in this country is to now to right yet another wrong, visibly witnessed on the news.  The desecration of the one building that holds our freedom and the laws of our land in its hands is nothing more than criminial.  We do not have to agree with each other politically but we do have maintain control of our impulses and respect the law.  The law...those written ideals that protect each and everyone of us.  The laws that maintain civility and allow for peaceful debate.

So 2021, here we are, tempting fate and working very hard to remain optimistic in the midst of a quagmire of doubt.  We must watch our physical health, seek to look after our mental health and when all else fails act out of love.