"and on to the next!"

Day 5 of being in Auckland, it's New Years Eve and I'm sitting in my sister's studio alone listening to Daniel Munro just... thinking... mulling... wondering... I'm not a big "New Years" type of person, normally snuggling up in my pyjamas in front of the TV and falling asleep way before midnight. Staying up feels kind of anticlimactic to me, all this hype, all this waiting around, and then when it's midnight, it's just... another midnight, another passing from one day to the next.

But I don't deny the idea of a new year doesn't get me reflecting, once again, on the unceasing, unwavering, immutable passing of time. And of the change that is by nature inextricably linked.

I get excited at the thought of a new year, because I know that it'll hold so many new experiences, brilliant conversations with newly discovered amazing people, beautiful moments, true pains, all of which will lead to growth... and change. I get excited because I know that when 2009 comes to an end I'll once again find myself reflecting on how much has changed, around me, within me; how I'm not the same person I was a year ago; and how awesome that is.

For who could have guessed the kinds of plans, thoughts, concerns, dreams I currently have cluttering the moments of my day, this day? Most definitely not the Anna of a year ago. And who can guess the kinds of plans, thoughts, concerns, dreams I will have this time in a year's time. Not the person I am right now, that's for sure.