Monday 5 January 2009

A New Year Dawns...

Two thousand and nine.

Once, simply a random number, now these four digits represent the current year. Where have the years gone? This, I do not know. What I do know, is that I grow older with each passing day, and I do not like this!

2009 will bring with it my 28th birthday. Most people say to me "You're going to be 28? Wow, you don't look it!" Listen, I might not look it (thanks for the compliment, by the way), but I am bloody well starting to feel it!

I was once able to eat and drink what I want, and my rigorous sporting hobbies would burn off the excess weight. Now, the bones are becoming more brittle, the hobbies are becoming fewer, and the belt notches are expanding! Something's gotta give, as they say.

I have never been one for making plans, and sticking to plans is something I am still learning how to do, but I decided to write a list of things to do before I turn 30. This gives me just over 2 years to feel I have impressed myself through hard work and determination. My list is not complete, and I no doubt will add and subtract from it as time goes on, but here is what I have so far:

(In no particular order...)

~ See the Northern Lights in person.
~ Finish my script I keep trying to write. (Seriously, it's going to be brilliant!)
~ Share a meaningful kiss with someone special on the stroke of the New Years' midnight. (I only have two more chances at that one!)
~ Be cast in a West End musical. (Wishful thinking)
~ Leave Europe for the first time.
~ Learn to play a musical instrument.
~ Discover a magical power or ability I posess, such as laser vision or telekenesis, that had been lying dormant within my DNA.

I would love to accomplish any of these things (especially the last one - I could call myself Telekenetic Laser-Vision Boy or something!), so I am determined to use 2009 as a springboard
onto bigger and better things.

Bring it on, Life! For once, I feel ready for you!