It sounds as if something out of a 1950's science fiction novel, as if it should be preceded with Star Date, but here we find ourselves with not a single robot nor hover-car in sight, the year 2011. What's crazier is to think that only ten years ago the world was obsessed with the thought of doomsday and Y2K, that with the simple step into the new millennium the earth would witness the collapse of the technological world as we know it. Shame it didn't happen really, always wanted to live an adventure, guess I'll have to settle for the zombie apocalypse of 2012... judy garland could still make her comeback; I wonder if Fred Astaire was buried with his dancing shoes on...
Resolutions of the new year have been made and now begins that ever daunting task of keeping them. To those who decide to read this, though I'm sure the number are few and far between (an almost comforting thought), my suggestion to you when creating that raincloud-over-the-head list is really reflect over the past year...for me it has been one heck of a ride. I conquered theatrical monsters, graduated from university, battled a beautifully daunting future, moved to a city obsessed with gossip and vanity, formed new friendships and lost some in between, found myself torn between who I am and who I was trying to be, witnessed myself on the big screen, got lost in the city lights, held some interesting jobs, jumped head first into the television industry, hit an emotional wall, brushed myself off and took another leap of faith. But most importantly in 2010 I experienced absolute heartbreak; and that my friends, it is the most revitalizing thing in the absolutely most fucked up kind of way. Wilde couldn't have been more true when he wrote that the heart was made to be broken, through it we learn more about ourselves, about what we are made of and what we deserve in this life. A broken heart, though painful and desolate, opens our eyes to what we need not what we want; and through this, our darkest moments, we find our greatest beauty.
This will be a year to really remember. Its a feeling in the pit of my stomach, a tune softly whistling through the wind and landing in my ear. Call it eager hope, blind ambition, but it's there and I plan to make the most of it. 2010 was the year of inevitabilities, 2011 is the year of possibilities...and my friends, they're endless as long as you have the courage to pursue them.
-rp
Tribulation first makes one realize what one is...
[Marie Antoinette 1781]
