Thang Nguyen 555

It feels as though a thousand pounds have just been lifted from my chest as I hear fireworks and even gun shots (Texas) marking 2021 arrival. Like an approaching train that is finally here. The beginning of the beginning. The Big Reset.

Well, I even re-started my laptop.

And I shed some old skin and some bad attitudes while at it. ( Been grumpy and morbid since Feb).

Well, you know…..(picturing my lower lip extended and revealed the lighter pink flesh)…

Yes, I have lived a roller- coaster life. So what!

I am still here (and regretably, not the other 2 million+ deaths – many notable and noble- from covid in 2020 – LAST year).

During the Vietnam War, an average of 19 American died per day except for 2 on that last day.

I still don’t understand what conflict can contribute to humanity (in above example, we’ve got the Powell Doctrine i.e. if you put boots on the ground, be damn sure you dominate and win, and not starting a wishy-washy war, since in war as in election, it’s a zero-sum game i.e. win-lose).

The 50’s sent us on the road to rebuilding and re-setting. Trying to catch-up with the Russian, competing for the Moon. 70 years into it, I found people living under the freeways, in tent, six-feet apart. Can’t be more “social distancing” than being homeless while trying to stay covid-free. I saw EMS vehicles in front of a nursing home today. Hope whoever they came for make it from last year to the next.

If 2021 sees us with a new virus, I hope it’s a good virus (like White-Hat hackers) to cascade and pay forward, the way Chuck Feeney, MacKenzie Scott…have… (as opposed to “cursing at darkness”).

Let’s hope the Big Reset brings out better angels in us, in me. I promise to change a few things, besides a new attitude . I hope it were as easy as my re-starting the laptop. Or posting a blog about a glass half-full. Which glass isn’t? Are you kidding? New Year, New You.

Gotta to have a goodnight sleep. To hit the gym. To stop the frown, and put on a smile. Who wouldn’t want to see a smiling person walking through the door. It lits up the room. In a big Re-set, one lives as if he/she hadn’t lately.