A new year bekons....

....and somehow that doesn't really fill me with joy or glad tidings! Was it supposed to?

The passing of 2007 is no bad thing in my book, or 2006 for that matter, I think I can say without fear of error that with the exception of one other, many moons ago, the last two years were probably the most difficult and challenging time in my life....and not ones that I have any wish, whatsoever, to repeat!

Yes, there were good times, a few, (should I break into song here?), I had some amazing holidays and got to visit something in the order of ten new countries, something I never thought I would get the chance to do, I got back into bikes after way too long a break, I discovered what I want in life (and what I don't) and I learned that it takes alot more to break me than I would ever have guessed...though sometimes it got pretty damn close, too damn close for comfort on occasion but thus far I made it!

I won't pretend that makes me proud, or a better person, or any of that crap, I'm a lightweight, growing through pain is not my idea of fun, I'd take the easy life option if it were an option, like most of us I suppose, but I got through it. Someone said to me recently that at it's basic level life is about survival....and I have survived, so perhaps on that level, whilst I have nothing to speak of in a material sense, I have succeeded in some small way in achieving something over the last year.

But life has to change some. I'm not one for the 'new year resolution' malarkey, I can fail quite well enough thankyouverymuch, without setting myself up unnecessarily but 2008 needs to see me brace myself again and face a few more demons and try to spend a little more time living and a bit less time just surviving.

Fingers crossed...... and no promises other than I will keep at it, though doubtless there will be more fences to fall at along the way but perhaps there will also be a few smiles too.