Stories of a Backpacking Addict
Subject: Not the End But Close!!
From this last day of the millennium, I send you my greetings.
May we all be happier in this next step in time than we were in the last. May email and telephone calls get cheaper and teleport services come about soon. May my grandchildren get to go to the moon, because I want to be there. May we all be healthy. May all the pollution go away.
Remember 1999 seemed so far away when the prince song came out? I was like “MY GOD I WOULD BE 25!”.. Well here I am. Doing something so completely different from what I thought I would be doing. Especially in a place that is pretty much untouched by technology and the cultural erosion of the last century.
May all the world just chill out and live in peace May we fight peacefully for it. May every one in the world own a Ben Harper album. May we all not have to work another ten hour day in out lives!
I have to go to my old guest house to have a hot shower otherwise it is cold water from a hose in a concrete room. Mad. I definitely don’t feel like it is the dawning of the 21st century. When I watch people collect and carry wood to their homes and saw a funeral of a 15 year boy who died of malaria. May we all have free good medical services and good standard of living? Let’s put it on the list.
May we all have as good fashion and music as we did in the last decade!
May we all fall in love and be with that person forever and ever. May we all survive to 2100.
Otherwise.. if it is the end of the world, with that whole millennium bug thing, I hope we all go while having a damn good time!!! I will be having a chill one this year, bunkered up with dry goods, water, and friends.
May the waters be always blue, and the sky always clear. May we all have good friends and loving families like I do. May the world just be a better place.
I just read this book called TIME QUAKE and it is all about how the world stinks and we all have to live the last ten years of our lives again, and we are not allowed to change a single thing. I asked Nic and Crusty if that would be a good thing or a bad thing and we all decided, yeah, it would have been over all a DaMN GOOD TIME. I had fun. Did you?
I am having a lovely 25 years retrospective at this very moment. Just swapping stories and reliving the last few very short years of my life. So many more to LIVE!!!!
No regrets and loads of forgiveness eh? It’s been good and the last decade was AWESOME over all, really was.
Crust asked me what I would be in ten years and all I could say was “wiser” because who knows what any of us will be doing with that long to go! And with the wisdom I am sure we can all do something with it. I am feeling rather “cosmic” at the mo.. I ignored the coming of the millennium and suddenly today at 6pm when I sat down to write this it’s all come flooding in. I love you all, and glad you’ve been around at some point of the last ten years eh?
This shall my wish for all of you. Take a little time out every so often and just think. “WOW.. this is MY life! And it’s how I want to live it!”
Life love and happiness.
Yan
Last Day of the Second Millennium AD.
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Cold shower
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