spes [hope]

Welcome to the last day of 2014!

Did y'all realize that today is the last day?  Like...after this there is no more 2014.  All gone.

So, hopefully we can all look back on that over-optimistic list of new year's resolutions we made last year and say that we satisfactorily accomplished all of them.
I hope that that's most of what happens to people, rather than just completely forgetting about them.
Either way, there is a surprising lack of people spending their last hours of the year hurriedly losing weight, reading things, being kinder to others, and achieving their dreams.
Seriously, I do wonder why new year's eve is a "drop everything an celebrate" experience rather than a "hurry and cram, finals-style".  After all, it is the last day of 2014...
We're either too irresponsible for that, or too hopeful for the future, choosing to look forward to the dawn of a second chance, rather than mourn over the missed opportunities and forgotten intentions of the past.  With our sincere desire to change, the wasted time and mistakes of the past seem to erase themselves.

So kudos to the humans for maintaining a hope for the future and for working to continually improve themselves.

And while you're out there partying tonight and neglecting your unfinished business from 2014, do it in a hopeful rather than irresponsible manner, and be grateful for the second chance you are given with the great dawn of a new year.