So far so good in the new decade...as long as one does not believe in omens. For example, in the last decade I had a very robust immune system. I very rarely got sick and even when I did, the effects were minor and short-lived. And yet I greet the new decade while under the influence of some flu-like bug. This could be a bad omen...or just a coincidence.
Another omen/coincidence is that I have already been hung over in the New Decade. It wouldn't be either an omen or a coincidence if I was regularly hung-over, but I'm Irish! I can handle my liquor. Then again I normally don't drink a bottle of bourbon (I had help) that was given to me by my favorite older brother, Paul. Will I be an alcoholic in the 'tens'. Let's wait and see.
I do have so much hope for the world in general. Please observe that for millennia one had to work all the time...hunting and gathering and what not. Then Christians and Jews decided to rest on Sunday because God did. Then in the 1920s the auto unions invented the two day weekend and the world saw this and they said 'this is good' and voila!, the modern weekend was invented. Something like this could happen again, in our lifetime...I'm not talking about a three day weekend, but something else so profoundly different that it effects everyone. I guess you could argue that the internet is already doing this, but it would be great if world connectedness via the internet lead to world peace.
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