“Remember that time the car totaled and you couldn’t stop laughing? You made smiley faces with the blood off your arm!”
“Yeah, I was probably just too high…and mighty. And you were all stoic and ranted on about meaning and reason and weirdly enough, Leibiniz.”
“Heh. Still love your conjunctions I see. Remember what happened after that?”
“Yeah.”
“We should do that again sometime.”
Seeing that 2008 wasn’t an especially good year (what with the economic crisis adding to my perpetual existential crisis), new year celebrations were a relatively sober affair. Relatively.
If the experts are to be believed, 2009 promises to be a shittier year and that’s saying a lot. Ah well, here’s to us. May we have the tenacity to see through these trying times.
What was it that Neitzche said about things that don’t kill you?
