Well, another year has passed and I still haven’t smacked the shit out of a stranger at a random big-box retail outlet. It’s hard to say what 2010 will bring us. Although 2009 wasn’t as bad as 2008 wound up being, it still doesn’t merit a cheer-leading squad.

It’s a fresh start. That’s all we can ask. A new chance to be kinder and gentler to our fellow humans. A new chance to pay more attention to our kids. A new chance to begin/continue learning about our inner selves. Don’t look back! What we’ve done cannot be undone. So smile and dive headlong into the fresh chance presented. Failures, weaknesses, and bad decisions of the past be damned. They are old news.

And so we are delivered unto the “Teens”! This is a decade, that in my opinion, has far more potential that the “Oughts”. Let’s face it, when you spend ten years trying to identify the decade with a name, with no luck, it was probably meant to be a “Lost Decade” from the start.

  • George Bush
  • World War 3 (what we’ll call “The War Between All Religions”)
  • Depression (but we’ll call it a recession)
  • Katrina
  • A seemingly good guy getting elected and they selling his soul

These five things alone will ruin a decade and they had plenty of company. One wonders what the road of American politics and culture will look like in 5, 10, 20 years. So many things about that landscape are sliding, with increasing speed, towards (or further into) surrealism.

  1. obesity
  2. lax child rearing
  3. greed
  4. consumption
  5. narcisism
  6. government/religion interference in regular people’s lives and decision making.

Above are the six things I’d like to see A LOT less of in the teens. Things that are dooming the human race to dark and fruitless existence.

Truly, we need to REALLY try and love ALL of the people of the world. Or at very least, avoid the hatred that fuels these six things.

That’s my resolution, LOVE. Making a really good go of spreading as much of it as I can!

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