Talk about a damp squib, and it was Year 2000 – or Y2K as we called it then.
The techies worked overnight to ensure that systems didn’t fail, and we partied away the night with cake, champagne, music and dance. After all, it was the turn of the century, and we wouldn’t live to see the next one.
A guest pulled out a piece of paper from his pocket which read ‘Tomorrow is just another day’. I don’t know why, but the sentence remained stuck with me, and I never hyped a New Year after that.
What was not mentioned in that note was these ‘just another day’ series accumulates moments to give us the wonder we call life, and every day turns a page in the book of Time.
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Oh, Lord! The hype was in overdrive for months before the big turn.
It fell short, like George Costanza climbing out of the “cold swimming pool” episode on “Seinfeld”.
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Everyone has memories of the ‘smooth transition’ or fiasco as we choose to call it 😀
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Y2K or Year 2000. I have almost forgotten it; even though it was incredibly important (or so we thought, back then).😉
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Thanks 😀😀
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I remember my husband was on call that night. I read a book in bed, and fell asleep before midnight, and woke up to a world very much the same as before I went to sleep!
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Waking up to the same world happened to everybody 😂
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Every day is special if you make it so.
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True. Thank you, Mimi!
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Good point about new year celebrations since “every day turns a page in the book of Time.”
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Balance sheets are published on an arbitrary date for accounting convenience. They do not reflect the position of the company for the whole year. The same applies to New Year celebrations. It just marks a crossover from one calendar to another.
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concise and thought-provoking Six
(love how you manage that in so few sentences)
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Thank you so much, Clark,for the constant encouragement! 🙏
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Yes, the hype around new years is sort of odd, especially since the choice of the date is rather arbitrary. Why not the solstice? At a party at my house at Y2K, as the clock struck midnight, I stole away to the basement and flipped the whole house circuit breaker cutting off all power. It gave everyone a fleeting “Hey, it’s real” feeling.
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Wow 😀 One can build a story around this power failure and what happens in the darkness.
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Wow, that hit me hard🥹
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Sorry about that 🙂
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How true is your ending Reena.
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Your ending is very true 💗
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Thank you so much, Robbie!
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