A New Year, A New Decade

It’s now 2010!  This past year felt like a short moment to me, and New Year’s Eve was like a blur. I usually get nostalgic on New Year’s, right after midnight hits. I think of times gone by and times yet to come and about all of the things I miss most. I was surprised that this year I didn’t feel like that at all, even though I didn’t have any family around me and I went out to a *gasp* bar to celebrate with friends. Maybe the reason why those nostalgic feelings didn’t come to me this year was because it didn’t really feel like New Year’s, or maybe it’s because I was too busy trying not to get pummeled to the ground by the drunk chick partying it up at the table next to us, but the point is that I felt “normal”.  It’s a new year, and a start of a new decade people! And I feel optimistic.  I don’t make resolutions anymore but I make life choices… I want to cook more and write more, I want to dance it up as much as I can and learn new dances, I want to meet new people, hopefully meet that special someone as well, I want to study yoga, maybe even teach it someday.  In a nutshell… I want to LIVE!  I don’t want to be stuck in the what ifs and the what-could-have-beens. I want to be alive, and that’s what I inted to do. Read more