So, Is This Christmas?

I've been tagged! Woohoo!!! But instead of listing down my points of reflection over the past year, I'd like to take a moment to ponder on this place we call home.

Global recession has overwhelmed and overflowed and is now quite literally in our own backyards, having an immediate affect on us.

The 25+ years of raging Sri Lankan war seems, dare I say, almost possibly statistically and hopefully coming to a possible end. (yes there's just too many unknowns to decide on a definite). It has caused unimaginable loss of life, both in human and animal counts. Loss that will, in all probability, be felt right throughout the next few generations to come.

Global warming continues to get worse, and we see its dramatic and uncontrollable effects every time we switch on our televisions and tune into the news channel. With snowstorms, hurricanes, brush fires and earthquakes, Mother Earth beckons us to listen to her before its just too late, and I'm afraid it might just be.

Violence and crime, suicide and murder have a home now in almost every country, city and destination on this planet, with disease and sickness spreading much like the many fires running ablaze in cities across the globe. Humans fighting humans, animals and nature suffering because of it. We have forgotten that we share and have only one home, and a chance of a united human race is too far fetched and out of reach no matter how hard a starving, anorexic child may pray for it.

And with all that, and so much more unspoken, terrible loss of life and species and the devastation that is so plainly visible each day, I write out the things that i have done and experienced for 2008.

• I've lived through my 2nd year of being on my own.
  
• I've given up on ever having children, for many of the above stated reasons.
  
• I continue to get used to the idea that I'll never get married.
• I've unconsciously allowed more distance between my loved ones. Something I plan on rectifying in the season and new year.
  
• I've carried a hundred eggs and twenty pineapples in one day.
  
• I've gone on a wild safari for the first time in my life.
  
• I've won accolades for theater and drama contributions.
  
• I've changed jobs and regretted it for many reasons, but continue to hope for the best.
• I continue to wonder why we wake up each day to this rat race.

I guess there are more, but my mind draws a blank with lack of sleep. So I wish you all a merry Christmas, and hopefully the year ahead IS different for us all, in a really good way.

PS. I tag cynically yours, random rantings, mad as a hatter and whoever is reading.