New Years Res A number of years ago, when I first graduated from law school, I worked as a clerk for a few different local state judges. I had a good relationship with the first one, but the second judge and I just didnt hit it off. So one day, he called me into his office and told me I was fired. I was blown and thought that the consequences of getting fired by a judge could ruin my legal reputation and my entire nascent legal career. So I groveled and begged and made the case that he never told me what he didnt like about me before he gave me the axe. I argued that he didnt give me a chance to change and improve myself. Being a good man and a good judge, he agreed that he had not given me a chance to change. So he changed his mind, told me I was on probation and gave me a list of all the stuff he didnt like about my job performance. And, I took advantage of that criticism, and made the appropriate changes. He kept me on the job and we became friends through these changes. I would later stop by his office when at the courthouse to say hello as those events brought us closer together as people. So here we are at the end of a year and the beginning of the next year. In the Jewish Religion, at the beginning of the Jewish New Year, it is said that God gives you a chance to straighten up your act. You get to wipe the slate clean and start anew. So, I am thinking that we can make this Western Civ new year anything we want it to be. It could be a meaningless event, or a get shit-faced event or it could be a clean-slate-I-am-going-to-get-it-together this years event. Knowing myself, the reality is that I might make a lofty promise that may or may not come to pass. Now if my job depended upon it, I would do better than try, right? What if my life depended upon my choices, or what if other peoples lives depended upon the choices I make for the coming year? Is that whats happening or do we need some God or Goddess to declare tonight that we are all on probation? Or must the consequences be so obvious and instantaneous to have any personal meaning? That sounds like the definition of maturity. It all boils down to Wah-Wah, or Shit-Yeah. Happy New Year--yall alang
Posted on: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 02:17:45 +0000
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