It used to be that hind sight was 2020, but now when the clock strikes midnight we will be looking forward to 2020! Well, some of us a little more than the rest of us. I have made this leap 77 times and I find it is not luck, or whether I ate Black-eyed Peas or not, but more just a luck of the draw. Before I found out I had to eat Black-eyed Peas in order to secure my good luck for the coming year, I had pretty good luck. Then I started eating them and my luck stayed the same. Could it be an old wives tale?
And speaking of old wives tales, the grandmothers were full of them. I tend to think of them more as wise tales as opposed to the wives tales. Here are a few for your consideration.
"Where spider web grows, no beau ever goes."
"Once bit, twice shy."
"Broken mirror brings 7 years of bad luck."
"Step on a crack; break your mothers back."
"Any thing that can go wrong, will go wrong." (This is called Murphy's Law.)
"Spill salt you have to pick it up and throw it over your shoulder to ward off the bad luck"
"13 is an unlucky number."
"A black cat crossing your path is bad luck."
"Red sky in the morning, sailor take warning."
"Red sky at night, sailor's delight."
This list goes on and on, and I am pretty sure that I violated every one of them! And yet here I am, alive and well and facing another year. But, you know what? Life is good. Where there is life there is hope. My momma told me that and I have lived by that my whole life. My life has had it's ups and downs, but I would not change one single thing about it!
This is my take on life: Every man I married and every man I did not marry, was for a reason. I learned something from everyone of them. Some of the lessons were very hard and some still bring tears to my eyes and there are things I would know now that I should have known then that I can not change. Every person I met along the way to today made an impact on who I am now. Some of my lessons made me a better person; some of them taught me that life is reality. But that is yesterday; and yesterday is gone. I will not pass that way again. There are no second chances at some things.
So Happy New Year! We will toast a cup of kindness now to Auld Lang Syne; however you spell it and whatever it means! Today is a new day and tomorrow will be a new year. Every New Years Eve, I forgive myself, and every New Years Day, I try to do better. Maybe someday I will get it right.
One more thing I know is that when I finally do get it right, the big guy upstairs is going to jerk the rug out from under me and holler "Hurry up and get in here while you are good to go!"
Peace to all and remember,
And speaking of old wives tales, the grandmothers were full of them. I tend to think of them more as wise tales as opposed to the wives tales. Here are a few for your consideration.
"Where spider web grows, no beau ever goes."
"Once bit, twice shy."
"Broken mirror brings 7 years of bad luck."
"Step on a crack; break your mothers back."
"Any thing that can go wrong, will go wrong." (This is called Murphy's Law.)
"Spill salt you have to pick it up and throw it over your shoulder to ward off the bad luck"
"13 is an unlucky number."
"A black cat crossing your path is bad luck."
"Red sky in the morning, sailor take warning."
"Red sky at night, sailor's delight."
This list goes on and on, and I am pretty sure that I violated every one of them! And yet here I am, alive and well and facing another year. But, you know what? Life is good. Where there is life there is hope. My momma told me that and I have lived by that my whole life. My life has had it's ups and downs, but I would not change one single thing about it!
This is my take on life: Every man I married and every man I did not marry, was for a reason. I learned something from everyone of them. Some of the lessons were very hard and some still bring tears to my eyes and there are things I would know now that I should have known then that I can not change. Every person I met along the way to today made an impact on who I am now. Some of my lessons made me a better person; some of them taught me that life is reality. But that is yesterday; and yesterday is gone. I will not pass that way again. There are no second chances at some things.
So Happy New Year! We will toast a cup of kindness now to Auld Lang Syne; however you spell it and whatever it means! Today is a new day and tomorrow will be a new year. Every New Years Eve, I forgive myself, and every New Years Day, I try to do better. Maybe someday I will get it right.
One more thing I know is that when I finally do get it right, the big guy upstairs is going to jerk the rug out from under me and holler "Hurry up and get in here while you are good to go!"
Peace to all and remember,
