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Goodbye 2011…hello 2012…Happy New Year!

A new year’s dawning in just a few hours for us here in Chicago.  It might already be 2012 wherever you live now. It might be 1985, too, if you happen to find yourself in a Delorean, flying or otherwise.

I hope wherever you are and whatever you are doing that you are doing it safely to celebrate the ringing in of a new year.

If you are drinking, please drink responsibly…and don’t for any instant think you are okay to drive when you aren’t.

2012 will be a big year for our county…and we need YOU alive and well and ready to do your part. I don’t want to harp, but a fun time can be had without the alcohol; a champagne glass filled with ginger ale at a bar looks just like the real thing.  No bartender alive will refuse the request to do it, either. Just a simple New Year’s trick from Boystown to you for those whose friends pressure them to drink when they know they shouldn’t…well, now you don’t have to, and the peers-who-pressure will never be the wiser.

I you are staying at home tonight, and have a few moments to spend at your computer or on your phone, maybe you can take that time to tell the people you care about just how much you love them and how important to you they were this year. It would be nice if you could dash off a line or two to each individual, and not one big blanket Facebook post.  Let the people you love know you care about them, and invite them to make 2012 the best year ever for all of you by sharing its birth together.

If you are estranged from someone you love, why not let that estrangement expire at the stroke of midnight? Let it be a part of 2011, gone into the history books forever.

Everyone gets a fresh start on New Year’s Day in my book — though, many will no doubt do something awful to affirm whatever negative things I thought about them last year. But, with the new year, I do always strive to give people that second change. Or fifteenth, as the case may be. Even the cyberstalkers. Life is too short to maintain an enemies’ list in triplicate. No one really needs that paperwork or stress on their soul. That doesn’t mean you have to forgive and forget and let the villains of your life get away scot-free…it’s just a chance to free yourself from the shackles of having to be actively mad at those people every day. It’s a wonder what you can accomplish when you dwell only in the sunlight and invest your time and energy in the positive causes that matter to you, instead of the time you may have in the past spent carrying stale grudges. There are so many more things worthy of your time and precious energy.

My boyfriend Justin is with his family this New Year’s Eve, where every one of them is on pins and needles waiting to see if Justin’s newborn niece Astor will survive into 2012.  I miss him terribly and can’t imagine what he’s going through, and am beside myself worrying about Astor and praying she makes it. I hope whatever weakness and illness that plagues her gets evaporated into the ether with the dawning of 2012…like so many bad memories and so much grief that I know many of you had in your own lives this last year.

Tomorrow I want to talk about the things I want to work hard on to accomplish in 2012.  These won’t be New Year’s Resolutions, but things I think we could all work on together that will make a difference in the election at hand. Defeat Willard “Mittens” Romneycare in the primaries; Defeat Barack Obama in the General Election; Save the country from ruin at the hands of the Left. It’s a tall order, but America’s been up against worse foes in the past…and Americans always persevere when things might look at their absolute worst.

But, all of this talk is for tomorrow.

Tonight I want to listen to Mariah, and to the other versions of Auld Lang Syne that are out there. I want to send my emails out to friends thanking them for making a difference in my life in 2011 and asking them to remain at my side through 2012.  I want to call Justin and hear his voice and ask him how Astor is…and ask him again if he’ll join me in a civil-union next fall so he and I will never have to be apart like this again, on New Year’s Eve or any other day.

For all the health problems and other hardships that 2011 brought me, I somehow managed to find the best friend I’ve ever known and the guy I want to spend forever with in Justin.

So 2011 wasn’t such a bad year after all in my book — no matter what the talking heads and other Eeyores out there will try to convince you, as they read the tired old scripts they regurgitate every single year, for want of anything original to say.

We are all only dancing on this Earth for a short time; what we say and do and how we live matters. We all make a difference in our own ways and the stances we take or choose to ignore are important. We all have a part to play, so I hope I’m not the only one in 2012 who looks forward to you playing YOURS…in whatever way God has intended.

With deepest and most loving thanks for all your support, friendship, and readership in 2011 as we gear up for the most important political year of our lives.

– K.D. for H.B

12/31/2011

© 2011, Kevin DuJan. All rights reserved.

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Political analyst, essayist, and radio and TV commentator on politics, pop culture, LGBTQ issues, and current events.

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