2010, filled with zen

Every New Year's, I get very nostalgic. I mean, it's a holiday devoted to vowing to make yourself better at life! and who needs stupid goals about working out? (I totally have this goal, against my better judgment and knowledge that I will FAIL). I am also going to try to be more zen. What do you mean, Mara?

Every year, our high school student council advisor has a reunion. All of the student body officers from years past come and gets nostalgic about high school, is pretty much what happens. We find out what everyone is up to now that they OH MY GOSH, are so old. The picture albums from the days of yore (way back in the 1990s) and everyone looks through them. In our year, there was a final we had to take covering the events over the year. My fellow officers looked at it together. There was a question about who did the most work every day in the StuCo office. And we were all, WHO WAS IT? It wasn't Sparks. Was it me? Libby? Andrew? No one knew!

This brings up such crazy implications. There were so many times in high school when I would have a mental breakdown or go into cardiac arrest because of.... I DON'T EVEN REMEMBER. I distinctly remember these freakouts but CANNOT, for the life of me, remember why! It was such a huge deal then, but, in retrospect, did not matter at all.

This is something I definitely wish I could remember when I face my next problem. Unfortunately, if anyone were to remind me of this and confirm that this, in fact, was not a big deal, I may, in fact, kill them. It's one of those dangerous statements that would put one in the direct path of The Crazy. So I am going to make it a New Year's resolution to try to handle things a bit more calmly, with a bit more zen, and look at the big picture in my life.

So what was one of the StuCo final questions that we did all remember four years after the fact? That the officer that ripped her beltloop and couldn't make it up the wall at the challenge course.... was me.

Awesome.

Happy New Year, all.