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12/22/2005: "2005 and 2006 overview (part 1)"

Hi all,

Well, an other year has almost ended already and I can't believe how much time flies! It feels like only a couple of months ago that we had the tension over the millenium bug: will it or won't it bring down the whole of society as we know it?
However, judging we are almost in 2006 now that was almost 6 years ago!

Even though I know this with my head it is difficult to reconcile it with my heart. It is just unbelievable how time works; I still can't put my finger on it. Sometimes you can feel it crawling past: it can't go fast enough and that's exactly why it goes so slow. And then again: 6 years are gone before you know it.

This year especially has been quite extraordinary in the negative sense of the word. Not just on a wordly scale but also a personal one.
The wordly one is easiest to define, from the top of my head: The Asian Tsunami (although strictly speaking that was in 2004), Hurricane Katrina which brought havoc to New Orleans, Florida and a whole area around it (also the fact that it was the worst hurricane season with I think 26 hurricanes and storms during the season), the London bombings (no words are able to describe my feelings about that), the Pakistani earthquake which is still continuing to make victims every day (and will probably do so to a mind boggling extend that we don't even want to know about) and then of course you have got the ongoing problems of the Iraq war, terrorism and probably a couple of things more which I have forgotten about.

For some reason I had the feeling a lot more dissasters had happened this year and then again: it doesn't seem so many but a lot of lives have been turned upside down due to the big disasters.
However, you don't need 'big' disasters to have your life turned upside down. As even 'small' personal difficulties can do this.

See part 2 of my 2005 overview for that.