Fradam

Well, first of all, Happy New Year everyone, hope you had a safe fun time A small BBQ gathering was held at Casa de Frads, with a few games of Articulate until the fireworks rolled around, none of which my team won.. but there is always next time! The Sydney fireworks, as always was a good show, with some 5-6 different set of fireworks visible from our balcony. All in all, it was a good evening, which it seemed everyone enjoyed, and provided some opportunity for contemplation concerning the year to come.

The ushering in of a new year is often fraught with desires for change, changing, changes, etc. I like it just for that breath of fresh air, that coolness in the wind. It is akin to those drops of water just after rain, which funnily enough was exactly how New Years Day was looking in 2007: a day just after rain.

I’m not entirely sure what this year will hold as so much looks like it will change at the drop of a hat… like that drop of water, just ready to fall. Perhaps it is more like Dr Ian Malcolm’s speech on Chaos Theory (Jurassic Park, 1993), where he describes how a single drop of water can go in different directions:

It changed. Why? … Because and here is the principle of tiny variations - the orientations of the hairs on your hand, the amount of blood distending in your vessels, imperfections in the skin — microscopic — never repeat, and vastly affect the outcome.

It appears life itself mirrors the drop: so many tiny variations can occur in the next day, the next week, the next month, leading to very much different lives. Only time can tell which way the drop goes, but I remain ever hopeful that it will be for the best — happiness often only comes when you want it to come, after all.

Photo courtesy of Kellie - thanks