Happy New Year
By sylvie | December 31, 2009
When I was a kid, the year 2000 seemed so exotic and so far away. It was obvious that by then, we would be in The Future. Of course, my idea of what the future was going to be like turned out to be wrong. I never really thought a lot about it when I was young, but I did read a lot of Isaac Asimov as well as other science-fiction authors, so I kind of expected there to be a lot more domestic robots and a lot more pollution (that was the dystopia du futur back then). (No, it didn’t involve flying cars. That was more of a 50s sci fi thing.) But I guess my biggest disappointment with the future/present is the lack of a moon colony. It was so obvious to us science fiction nerdy kids back then that that was where we were heading that even the international space station doesn’t excite me very much as an accomplishment. We could’ve been on the Moon! We could’ve been a contender!
And in the year 2000, I would turn 40, be a successful scientist and be well on my way to win a Nobel Prize. Well, one out of three ain’t bad.
And now here we are in 2010. I am going to turn 50 in a few months, which makes me officially old. I am no longer middle-aged, unless I happen to live as long as grand-mère Noël, who died at 103 - which I doubt. So of course I am planning to dye my hair purple and get a nose ring for the occasion. And why not? One should celebrate having survived so long by doing something totally silly. To hell with the notion that older women have to be dignified. Let’s have some fun while we still can.
And that, my friends, is what I wish for you in the new year. Have some fun. Dye your hair purple or green or canary yellow. Get a science-related tattoo. (OMG, I love that Darwin’s Finches as Butterfly one). Be silly. Because we only have one life and it goes by very fast indeed.
Happy New Year!
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