Friday, January 02, 2009
12:37 pm
Right. So I am late for the requisite New Year post. And I didn't blog for half a month. But it's all good, because I had a mini holiday project of beta-ing a fellow LiveJournal/CSI:Miami fandom fangirl's fanfiction. It's sort of a way to train myself to minimise my procrastinating tendencies. I still procrastinate, but not as much, so, YAY!
Yup, anyway, the turn of a new year.
My 2008 passed the same way my 2007 did—unnoticed. It felt so unfair that I didn't really get to experience my 2008. But, yeah, whatever. Time really does fly, no matter if one is having fun or just hoping to survive the year.
2009. Oh, 2009. Another 364.26 days of fresh beginnings and opportunities.
I dare not hope much for the year, and I pretty much stopped making resolutions because I know I won't keep to them, but I do wish for a few things, for people to:
Learn that everyone is different.
Accept that no one lives the same way—your way.
Respect each other's differences.
Understand that being different does not equate to being evil.
Understand that not everyone believes in your religion.
Understand that religious teachings don't lord over one's life, but are rather things that teach you to be a better person.
Blame each other a little less.
Respect each other a little more.
Think logically before acting and-or speaking negatively.
Realise that generalising people is the same as being prejudiced against that group of people.
Remember that we are all humans who have to share this living space and will be rubbing elbows with each other and should be treated with equal dignity and humane rights, even if laws and religions say otherwise, because after all, they correspond only to their specific group of people and are not things that define us. It is the compassion we have for each other that make us human, not intelligence nor culture, and it is only too easily forgotten for the sake of forcing our own opinions down someone else's throat.
Let's hope this will truly be a happy new year, because in the end, when all else fails, the only thing we have left is hope.