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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.134.108.203
Posted on Tuesday, December 31, 2013 - 06:29 pm:   

For what it's worth. Next year has to be better than this one was... right?
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Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw

Registered: 03-2009
Posted From: 86.24.62.55
Posted on Tuesday, December 31, 2013 - 06:35 pm:   

It couldn't possibly be worse. Onward and upward...

Happy New Year to all here!!
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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 92.237.187.186
Posted on Tuesday, December 31, 2013 - 08:26 pm:   

Yup! I'm hoping for a much better 2014 for everyone here too! Happy New Year from me.
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Mbfg (Mbfg)
Username: Mbfg

Registered: 09-2010
Posted From: 2.122.230.74
Posted on Tuesday, December 31, 2013 - 09:53 pm:   

Happy New Year everyone!
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.126.164.88
Posted on Wednesday, January 01, 2014 - 03:07 am:   

Yeah, it stank here, too. But here's to hoping it's a great New Year for everyone!
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Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw

Registered: 03-2009
Posted From: 86.24.62.55
Posted on Wednesday, January 01, 2014 - 05:03 am:   

Make it so, people.

We are all the masters and mistresses of our own destiny...
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Giancarlo (Giancarlo)
Username: Giancarlo

Registered: 11-2008
Posted From: 95.75.165.94
Posted on Wednesday, January 01, 2014 - 08:12 am:   

Stevie, that's a very optimistic assertion. Indeed, I'm quite convinced everybody's fighting his/her own war for mastership. Conflict is a general condition. Could it be a new thread on the Board? Anyway, Happy New Year, and Happy New Years to come, to You and All in this Round Table!
Giancarlo
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Hubert (Hubert)
Username: Hubert

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 178.116.63.254
Posted on Wednesday, January 01, 2014 - 12:05 pm:   

I sincerely hope (but don't believe) 2014 is going to be good. Anyway, without hope you cannot start the day.
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Mbfg (Mbfg)
Username: Mbfg

Registered: 09-2010
Posted From: 5.69.119.53
Posted on Wednesday, January 01, 2014 - 12:32 pm:   

A year as we define it is a strange creature, a many-facetted thing. For me, personally, 2013 was not half bad. Move out a little way and the view isn't so good; war, death, disaster, political and corporate corruption and incompetence. A lot of good people have been lost, both those I know personally and those I admired from a distance. My wife, too, lost two people in quick succession this Autumn.
Some of it is due to my own age, I only have one aunt and one parent (and a step parent) still alive, that generation of a very large extended family was decimated in the course of a decade, likewise, the writers and actors etc. I admired and grew up with are all reaching a certain age, so...
This New Year will bring the centenary of a cataclysm worse than any of us have ever experienced (presumably, please correct me if I am wrong, I wouldn’t want to presume to judge levels of anyone’s personal suffering and distress). Yet people probably drank champagne or beer or tea and celebrated the birth of the New Year on Jan 1st 1914, some even, perhaps a lot, said good riddance to 1913.
Don’t really know what my point is her, I’m waffling! I think I'm trying to say that a year is not usually all bad, or all good.
Anyway, it's my 57th birthday on Saturday, so you'd better get all those large and expensive presents in the post today to make sure they arrive here on time.

Cheers
Terry
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Hubert (Hubert)
Username: Hubert

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 178.116.63.254
Posted on Wednesday, January 01, 2014 - 01:54 pm:   

57? Ha, I'll be 58 in April. Beat you to it, Terry. I really can't believe I'm close to 60 and have the distinct impression that the older one gets the faster time flies; or is that an erroneous impression fostered by the fact that my life processes are slowing down?
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Darren O. Godfrey (Darren_o_godfrey)
Username: Darren_o_godfrey

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 71.220.160.16
Posted on Wednesday, January 01, 2014 - 07:41 pm:   

2013 was second only to 1997 (the year my wife died) for The Worst Year Ever.

Hope springs eternal for what is to come.
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.156.5.194
Posted on Wednesday, January 01, 2014 - 08:07 pm:   

Time seems to go faster because when we look back on the previous year it's a much smaller percentage of our lives than it ever used to be.

When we were children a year lasted forever because, when we looked back, it was a huge section of our lives, now the same length of time is less than 3% of what we've experienced. as for months, weeks and days... that's getting into depressing territory. Especially when there's so little to differentiate one day from the next for most of us. Stuck in tedious repetetive jobs...

Can you tell I'm not the happiest bunny at the moment?
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.126.164.88
Posted on Wednesday, January 01, 2014 - 08:46 pm:   

Also, I think sheer repetitiveness shrinks time. When you're six, say, you've had about two memorable (literally) Christmases; but when you're 60, say, you've had well over 50, and they all blend into each other.

You know, I imagined the other day a science-fictional concept; where scientific advancements had succeeded in advancing—and proportionally so—human life. But it was only by about 25 years. So, people could now regularly expect, all things being equal, to more-or-less healthily live to be in their 100s, like we now expect to live into our 80s. But again, it was proportionally so—our phases of life were thus extended by only a few years, but enough to really alter life noticeably. Would people marry in their early 20s? Knowing now they have 80 years to go with the same person? Would people have multiple careers through their life? Would people develop two lives, an early one and late one?... Now extend it by another 10 and see how life changes, and another 10.... All of society would be inalterably upended—people would change, as never before; and the quicker the generational alteration, the more dramatic the effects on society.

I think we're kinda getting there now.
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Hubert (Hubert)
Username: Hubert

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 178.116.63.254
Posted on Wednesday, January 01, 2014 - 09:02 pm:   

There may be something in what you say, Weber. When I was, say, nine or eleven a summer afternoon in the fields or at he beach with my chums definitely lasted an eternity, this was more than just a few careless moments blithely spent; noon and evening were altogether different countries. I also concur with Craig's view that the sheer repetitiveness of what comes with adult life weighs us down after a fashion. Less and less new impressions, boredom, death.
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David Lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees

Registered: 12-2011
Posted From: 2.219.133.41
Posted on Wednesday, January 01, 2014 - 11:39 pm:   

I remember reading somewhere that that really is the reason time flies as you get older - you're simply having fewer new experiences and doing more that's repetitive and not worth remembering compared to childhood.

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