Every year I write a post discussing my selected “theme”
for the coming New Year. Every year I go
back and read the previous years’ “theme” posts and reflect on them. In looking back today, I realized I never did
post a theme for 2017. I think I wrote
one but it was on my laptop that died and in the process of getting my new
computer, the post was never retrieved and posted. Somehow that’s fitting because 2017 was what
can best be described as a “shit-show” of a year for me and mine. No matter what theme I might have had in
mind, it would have been blown to hell by a myriad of set-backs, hard times,
illnesses, losses, and more. I’ve spent
the better part of 2017 as a care-giver in one capacity or another to my
parents and my husband and all their health issues and crises, to a few
friends, as well as being a mom to Punky.
We have dealt with a ton of health issues, a disability, a job loss, huge
financial burdens, a stalker, and impending death this year and there’s no real
end in sight right now. To be honest I
was seriously thinking about not doing a theme for the coming year either as
very little of the aforementioned “shit-show” has resolved itself and the world
at large seems like a very gloomy, destined-to-implode place right now. Then a friend quoted Captain Picard to me: “It
is possible to do everything right and still lose”. I sunk down into that quote for a couple of
days, bemoaning in the truth of it actually.
And then I came upon this quote by Robert Brault:
"Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or
happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to
it."
