Adios 2017, Welcome 2018
As we usher in the New Year 2018, let us hope for love, not hatred, and pray for Peace throughout the world, for those affected by war, famine, natural disasters and extreme weather conditions; pray for the sick, the bereaved, the injured, the afflicted and the poor.
We remember our folks who are far away from us; consider ourselves lucky to have our friends and family near us, and pray for those folks who are no longer with us today.
I am thankful for having had a better life than the less fortunate than myself. I hope to cherish the happy memories I have had with my dear ones, and think of the good times we have shared in the happy times of yesteryear, and hope for a better 2018, with happiness, peace and prosperity for all throughout the world.
While reminiscing on the calendar of 2017, we cannot change the past, but we can definitely wish, hope and pray for a better 2018 and keep the resolutions we make.
I cherish the good old days when our family and friends attended New Year’s Eve Ball; and I remember the house parties that followed during the festive season. That was the norm. Today as we are much older, we can’t help but reminisce about the good old days, and the good times we had then and those wonderful moments we shared with our friends and relatives - some of whom sadly are no longer with us.
Sometimes I tend to ask myself why we refer to those days as the “good old days”. Conversely, I believe that the days are the same, the only difference being that we are getting older. Poignantly though and perhaps quite aptly, some of us may reminisce once again in forming a circle with our friends at the Ball, waiting for the count-down at the stroke of midnight and singing ‘Auld Lang Syne’.
To sum it up I’d like to play just for old times’ sake a short clip of a favourite and familiar tune that we hear on every New Year’s Eve. It's only in recent years with the encouragement from my daughter Denise that I learned to play an instrument I always wanted to - the violin. Learning is still in progress - but nonetheless, I hope this brings home the sentiment that ‘Auld Lang Syne’ has done year after year.
To listen to my humble rendering of ‘Auld Lang Syne’ on the violin, please click on the following link, video kind courtesy of my wife Edna. Thank you.
Wishing you all my Facebook friends, your families and all your near and dear ones, a Happy & Prosperous New Year 2018. May good health, love, peace, joy and happiness reign at home.
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and days of old lang syne.
CHORUS:
For auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne,
we'll take a cup of kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.
