Terry Traveler – New Year Thoughts

Good friends, gather round! It is the end of a long, stressful year and I, your devoted writer, poet, taxidermist Terry Traveler, am here to remind you of sunshine! 

Welcome to 2018!

You see, the point of New Years is hope for the future and what this next year will bring. The end of 2017 felt simultaneously underwhelming and overwhelming. Why? Because of the Potential each year holds. 

As 2017 fades in our memory, we are reminded of things that bothered us, things like missing out on the Annual Rain Dance Festival in Detroit. Things that made us sad, like that time my car got towed on the way to the Annual Rain Dance Festival in Detroit. 

Or mad, like that time I got a completely unjustified ticket for driving a big rig without a valid US license on my way to the Annual Rain Dance Festival in Detroit. For you see, I had my Argentinian license, but not my diplomatic papers to support the validity of the Argentinian license. I left those in my other parka. It was an ordeal.

But I’m here to help you forget about all that Annual Rain Dance Festival nonsense because you know what? I know a secret. And that secret? I’ll tell you. 2018 is going to be an incredible year. And the sheer fact that I know that is very weird indeed.

You see, each year has such great potential that we have a mix of emotions come January. We say goodbye to all the potential 2017 had in store, just 12 short months ago, and turn rapidly into a brave new era! An endless era of bright sunny days with endless chances to go vegan for a week or rent a paddle boat for a month. With the tick of a clock and freshly minted list of resolutions, our Potential Meter is refilled. 2018, in all its glory, is full of that sweet, sweet elixir, Potential.

Some people don’t like the New Year and to them I say, be quiet, its a beginning. Think not of the end, think not of chances missed, think not of past wasted days playing Pokemon Go and the subsequent (and nearly instantaneous) forgetting of your obsession with Pokemon Go. 

Think only of all the goals you see yourself achieving in the next 365 days. Think fondly of each of those 525,600 minutes you can spend cultivating a garden or learning Spanish or renting a paddle boat!

Welcome, dear readers, to the year 2018! 

This is Terry Traveler saying, I may not know the future, but it’d be a lot cooler if I did.

Terry Traveller
Email: terry@discoveradel.com
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