Happy New Years to all, meaning that I hope your year is a good one.
I'm watching Times Square right now at midnight, and something about these people gathered for the party has always been bittersweet to me. It's a celebration of the coming New Year, but it's also an unconscious grasping of the will-o'-wisp .It says that life is brief and its length is unknown.
One-hundred plus years from now, future Americans will watch YouTube (or its successor) and see this 2018/19 New years celebration, and think..."everyone in that World is dead now...." They will see humanity striving to live, and doomed to die.