Be Who You Are

Trash day after Christmas must be a boon for would be thieves. If they took the initiative to ride through the neighborhoods early on trash day, they would be privy to almost everything each particular household acquired new for Christmas. On Monday I noticed one house in particular that had received new Cuisinart appliances. Others along the route received expensive computer games, boom boxes and a myriad of other things that would make a would be thief extremely happy and they could bypass the houses that received nothing of interest. Just maybe a small preventative measure such as putting discarded boxes in opaque trash bags would be enough deterrence.
How lucky are we to be living across the river from little New York City? Of course it’s the dropping of the ball on New Years Eve that I am referring to. Until Wednesday night, thanks to a local news channel, I had never seen the thing up close and now I wish I had not; it is just so crudely made it is comical. Have you ever blown up a balloon then wrapped it in wire or something else stiff enough to hold shape then popped the balloon? Well that is what the ball looks like. If that were not bad enough, this year they decided it needed more lights but instead of stringing more of the same Christmas lights on it they used lights with white wires which stuck out like a sore thumb. Cheesy? I wonder how far it drops; 20 feet, 25 feet and people actually go watch it. Amazing.
Once again it is a New Year and with the New Year comes ads for diet pills, diet systems, exercise equipment, magical makeup that erases time from your face, and ads for all the online dating services. 99% of the population makes new years resolutions to address one or more of these problems every year and 94% fail in the first two weeks. We are reaching for the unrealistic; the magic pill so-to-speak. We do this because we are inundated with ads and social pressures to look a certain way, wear certain clothes or keep up with the latest trends in jewelry. Those 94% that fail will take it badly when in truth being who and what they are is all that really counts.