Orapiu Jetty, Waiheke Island : Photo by Evan

New Zealand is 144 minutes into the final day of 2007. There’s something about seeing out an old year and beginning a new that has a tendency to find one reflecting. I dont know how Im feeling about it. Ive been working hard to tie up loose ends so 2008 could kick off with nothing in the road but Im not quite there and its irking me.

I am looking forward to it. I always look forward to a new year. The same as the birth of a new day. Every morning I wake up anticipating, and excited about, what ill have achieved by the end of it. New things I may learn or friends I may make. Ive always loved it. A new year is exactly the same only bigger, potentially scary depending on what you have riding on it, and alot more to think about. Particularly when you dont feel like you have much to show for yourself from the previous.

Since 18yo Ive lived a life that saw me in a position at the end of every year about as far removed from where I expected to be as it could be…until 2 years ago. Ive just gone through my second Christmas in a very similar situation to the one I was in last. If another year rolls around like that ill officially be confessing “in a rut"….which I dont aspire to. So, 2008 needs to bring me back into ‘unpredictable’. I need change. I need things to happen. Ive spent the past 2 years setting foundations and its time to make them work for me. Im putting pressure on myself this new year and intimidating myself in the process but thats fine. I know what I need to do…I hope I will. My world as I want it awaits me!

Can I put it off till the week after next?