Let’s Party like it’s….. ‘09?

A little bubbly please!

Well, here we are once again.  A new year with new promises of hoped-for prosperity, peace, abundance, and whatever else positive charms we can sprinkle onto our party hats. 

But this  year, like its predecessor, the infamous “Y2k” ten years ago, I am once again faced with a dilemma. 

Is it really the start of a new decade or do I have to wait until 2011?

Just like ten years ago when I succumbed to the frenzy of all things millennium, I recall gnashing my teeth in needless worry over whether or not the new century and millennium began at the end of 1999 (okay here’s where we start humming that old Prince tune) or if it didn’t truly kick in until one year later.

Even as the champagne warms up in our flutes this time, the debate rages on yet again. There are countless websites today, on January 1, chock full of different opinions regarding this seemingly unanswerable question. 

But as I see it, does it really matter?  Whether we ascribe to the more logical case posed that says the decade won’t start officially until 2011 or if we are happy enough to call it the new decade of the (what…”teens?”) and can finally close the door on what most of us now reflect on a mostly disastrous ten years commonly referred to in my house as the “aughts,” it’s still a new year and time for self-inventory, new promises, and fervent hope all around that by this time next year we as a people and nation and world will be able to say “whew…that was a LOT better than last year!”

So new decade or not, in a set of years to be called the ‘teens (?), let’s set forth on a new path of focusing on more important matters than semantics and vowing to do one thing better than perhaps we did not do yesterday, last month, last year, last decade, or (if we’re old enough), last millennium. 

As Oprah Winfrey reminds us,

“Cheers to a new year and another chance to get it right.”

Here’s to 2010!

Tagged as: 2010, decade, New Year, resolution