Each New Year....Blessed or Doomed?

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SeaBreeze

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With every new year, do you feel blessed to see another year and be alive? Or do you feel depressed, that you're another year closer to death?

Hubby and I have been jokingly saying that we're another year closer to death...which is true. But, I always add onto that, that we're blessed to be this old, and still be alive...some folks are denied the privilege of old age.

I'm happy to still be alive and kicking, surprised really that I made it this far. :p
 

Don't ponder it all that much. I think I gave up wondering about how low the fuel was getting as every single Christmas Mum would want a big deal made of it because "This will be my last one."
Well, 24 last Christmas' were getting tiresome before she got it right, and by then the calendar had lost all meaning.
 
I gave up on depression. Would rather look forward instead of back; up instead of down; good instead of bad. You go, 2014. Onward . . . !
 
Every day is a new beginning.
New Year's Day is just another one of them as far as I am concerned.
I've been on bonus time for the last 25 years and I take death as a given but don't give much thought to how or when.
In any case, I have been blessed all of my days so far. There's got to be some hard days to come but why anticipate them ?

Shakespeare said it best:
"Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come"

- Julius Caesar
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The way I see it, I'm one year closer to being in the Florida sun, one year closer to perfection, and one year closer to having Sofia Vergara as my love slave.

... so, in about three years I should be set! :D
 
Qui Sera, Sera....Whatever will be, will be. Doris Day had it right. I know I'm closer to death each passing day, but don't give it much thought either way.
Some days the ailments try to get me down but until they do, I will continue acting like an older teenager and enjoy life my way.
 
Its funny,every 2 years in January I buy a new car and always say "this is the last one I will not be here to buy another one."

I celebrate New Years on my birthday,August 3rd,isnt that suppose to be your real new year ?
 
Davey Jones said:
Its funny,every 2 years I buy a new car and always say "this is the last one I will not be here to buy another one."
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I understand new cars are very important to a lot of people, just not me. And thank goodness for that, as I've got my own set of problems in making purchases! LOL

I know I've posted this before, but when I bought my Camry in 2001 I said it would be my last....and it has never even slightly occurred to me to change my mind on that. My aunt drove her Camry for 28 years and now her g'daughter uses it everyday, with very little maintenance.
 
WhatInThe said:
Tick-Tock, the clock on the wall says it getting closer to your time in a box.
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You are so right, but please don't keep reminding me. We have to accentuate the positives and eliminate the negatives and life keeps going on. I won't be back on this thread, it's way too depressing for me. There are too many positive threads to respond to, upbeat things, things that make me happy -- not when am I going to die. I don't mean this in a derogatory way, but it's a very downer thread and not one that most of us want to deal with, however realistic it may be,
 
Nothing as wonderful as having a good year. 2013 was Great! Being happy brings a sense of well being and it doesn't matter how old. Although I wouldn't mind dancing all night I have to be satisfied with seeing friends and enjoying their company. Best Wishes to all for a Happy New Year 2014. Sincerely, By the Thames
 
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