Broken Wing

I just don't have enough information to make that kind of committment

Over the past week, a lot of people have been wishing me a "Happy New Year." Well, I'm sorry, I cannot return the greeting. "Happy New Years Day" I'm okay with. But I really do not feel comfortable wishing you an entire happy year. You see, on New Year's Day, you're probably just going to be recovering from a hangover, or writing down things you wish you could change about yourself now that the earth has returned to this position in its orbit around the sun. And I hope that you are happy during that day.

But to wish you a happy new year is just going out too far on a limb for me. For one, I don't know what kind of stuff really makes you happy. Maybe you get a kick out of torturing puppies. Maybe punching old homeless women really makes you happy. In these cases, wishing you a happy new year is a horrible mistake. In fact, in those cases I hope you have an unhappy new year. But you can't always tell what makes a person happy. And it could change over the course of the year, as they might sustain head trauma, especially if they try to eat any of my egg rolls. Can you imagine the guilt I would feel if, because of my wishes, you went on some kind of killing spree that left you insanely happy? Posted by mill1991 at January 3, 2005 01:11 PM | TrackBack