NEW YEARS EVE

Well isn't this night the strangest night of the year. Parties, drinking, friends, food, New Years resolutions etc. It is the night when people that you have lived next to for umpteen years, that don't even know your name (neighbours) suddenly invite you to be their best friend and want you to come to their New Years Eve party! It is the night that every little trouble in your life is suspended for just a few hours in time, then you wake up in the morning and yes - what a surprise - everything is the same only with a bit more washing up to do from the night before!

There are the New Years Resolutions, normally along the lines of lose weight, stop smoking, eat healthier blah,blah,blah - and how long do they all last - yes two weeks if you are really lucky!.

New Years Day arrives. What a strange day that is. Walking out in public and everyone, yes people that have spent the last 364 days walking past you without even lifting an eyebrow to recognise your existence, suddenly hold their heads high and wish you 'Happy New Year', we all return the gesture by wishing them 'Happy New Year' knowing that that will be the only three words that will be spoken to one another during the next 365 days until the next New Year.

There are the people who really do want to celebrate the incoming of the New Year and spend the time with family and friends, for which this time is a special time of year. Families that are getting together after losing a member of their family during the year, for them a time to remember that person and to start a new year afresh.

There are those people who would love to celebrate New Year with their friends but don't actually get included, yes that happens!. They may sit at home just longing to spend some time with old friends or even just to be remembered by receiving just a phone call from them, just so they know that their existence in this world is relevant.

Lets sit down and really think about what a New Year means to us all.