In the past I've always been inclined to make a big New Year resolutions list, celebrate the end of a year and the beginning of a new year with a decisive clink of the champagne glass, watch the ball drop, toast my loved ones. This year, 2007 slipped away quietly and 2008 glided in seamlessly. I went to bed around 11 PM and didn't even wait to greet the new year. I made no new resolutions and I didn't make a big to-do about celebrating its arrival. It's okay, I realize. I am not making any big decisions to turn my life around 180 degrees and become a new super powered emily. This year, I'm going to live through it as gracefully as I had let it arrive, quietly, steadily, softly. I don't want any big dramatic moments, but I do want a year of progressive steady developments, towards my career goals, towards my future life.
Last night I watched Sicko. It is a very humorous movie actually, lots of dry ironic wit Michael Moore style. Creative and acerbic and makes you go, "Yeah, why is that?" Jason keeps telling me it's biased and of course that is true, but I am glad he made this documentary anyway because it does highlight some glaring issues within our health system and why is it that a mere 30 some years go by and we are already accepting this as a fact of life, as something that is just how it is? We are reputedly the most powerful, the richest country in the world and this is how our citizens get by in life, this is what happens when one of our own gets sick? I am befuddled and I don't pretend I know what's wrong with the system and how it can even begin to be fixed, but I do think I owe it to myself to think more deeply about this issue because it is certainly going to involve me both on a personal level and a professional one as well.
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