New Year Resolutions

1. Lose weight
2. Be happy
3. Drink less
4. Judge others less
5. Try to be more forgiving

So many of the people I loved have gone.  This is life, is it not?  So I must adjust myself to it, because sure as phuque it's not going to change for me.

So I mustn't judge people for their cruelties and wrong-doing.    That'll be hard: some I will never forgive.  But I know in my heart just how flawed I am.  Surely I can extend forgiveness to others if I want them to forgive me?  And maybe forgiving will allow me to gain the first 3 of my goals.

I will try harder.

Majorca Flats -- 122

“But there was a problem. Not with me — so I thought at the time! Oh, no, not with me! — but with everybody else. Almost everybody. See he was working class. He didn't have a fancy education. He had the wrong fucking accent.” Jason couldn't keep the bitterness out of his voice. “My fucking parents made that 100 per cent plain when I took him home. They fucking humiliated him. In front of me.”

“What didja do?” asked Keith.

“Not enough. I should've told them to get thoroughly fucked. I should have taken Brent out of there right off, just left, and never gone back. But I just couldn't fucking believe it. I couldn't. They were my parents and … they should have loved me. They should've … they should have accepted that I loved him. That he made me happy.”

Once again, Jason couldn't go on speaking. Luigi and Keith both produced a handkerchief. Luigi's was impeccably laundered and folded, and unused. Keith's was a tatty crumpled ball. The contrast made Jason grin. Instead of taking one he shook his head. He was able to continue.

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