I'm with Wayne...no looking back!
Byron, we lost one of the good ones down here a few days ago; an old Porsche Club friend of mine and dear friend to lots of others - 65 years young and fit as a fiddle; would put a lot of people I know (me included) much younger than him to shame. He suffered a minor stroke followed by a massive one and now he's gone...
It's been a rather crappy year here too
. Deaths in the family (most sadly my Mum) and among our friends, too many issues on the work front to deal with hit all at once, our 15yo son has decided that the rules of our house are not for him and he has been on the party trail living on other people's couches for the last 5 weeks - doesn't seem to give a damn about much except himself...I ruptured a disc in my lower back right when we started moving the workshop and I discovered what excruciating agony a back injury can be (this from a girl who's had 3 kids the "natural way" and also almost severed a finger among other silly injuries)...yep it's been a rough one and I understand that "empty feeling".
HOWEVER you and I are still here - live life for each day and like it may be your last; live it to the fullest for I now firmly believe we are here for a good time, not a long time. I find I now get more pleasures from the simplest of things - complexities are just "clutter". I don't need the bling; I just need to go to bed each night knowing I have "done good" for the day in some small way.
SO...kiss that badass 2007 goodbye; indulge yourself your feelings for a while and then embrace 2008 with renewed vigour and gusto; it might just be a good, better, or best year if you give it a chance
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Happy 2008 everyone
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Cheers,
Lisa