Happy New Year!
January 2nd, 2005 by Sarin
Here’s to 2005 everybody!
Our New Year’s party this year rocked! Maybe not as random as last year, but definitely a lot louder. Champagne bottles, bouncing quarters, loud unrestricted music, and people screaming… it was one of those rare parties where I wake up with my ears still ringing. And even though I have trouble remembering everything, waking up with that is still a good sign. Pictures don’t do enough justice, you had to have been there.
Backtrack for a bit. My Christmas was alright. My family does not do anything for the holiday anyway, as I didn’t realize it was Christmas until an hour after I woke up, (it was around 2pm I think). I did visit some people but from what I remember besides playing GTA is doing lots of shopping (cuz like Lloyd Banks, ‘I’m so fly’) before and after the holiday, watching an occasional movie, and taking it real slow. I worked out at the gym some days, had trouble sleeping on the others, and managed to watch a good deal of movies somehow.
So it’s a blur but that’s alright. After heading up to UNH on Friday afternoon, I was treated a big huge inflatable lit up Polar Bear in a Santa outfit sitting in the floor of my small room. How hilarious.
Please welcome our 7th roommate
As for New Year’s resolutions, hmm, what can I say. What didn’t I learn this year that I might want to in 2005? While 2003 was very good, it’s level of happiness somehow caused me to have a very bad 2004. Seriously, I got crapped on more this year than any other year in memory. I don’t think I deserved any of it, and while people change, sometimes the fastest changer can be found in yourself.
I think business school teaches you alot of things in sub context that you don’t realize. So while I have been at UNH for almost 4 years, I have delved deeply into the business lifestyle coming straight from the life of geeks. I have learned and used most of what I learned in this year alone. We learn things about working with others, self confidence and being able to sell yourself without even realizing it. We learn that first impressions count, a good handshake should cripple the other guys hand, speak loudly and always keep your chin up. Walk with your best foot forward and don’t ever show your opponent your weaknesses or how much there gain is affecting you.
But I can’t have that business outlook all the time. The term “Don’t Show” slightly bothers me. It might seem like a good way to conduct business (keeping your opponents on their tippy toes), it might even seem like a good way to strengthen relationships (showing you have faith), but I think it sucks.
I have much been afraid of confrontation and don’t want to be ‘bitch’ out of a group, but I can’t let people walk over me. I have to get out of that mentality of staying strong and tell people that what they do or say really affects something. Otherwise, it only makes the other walk away thinking they have won. This year, I will not let anyone ‘beat’ me. We’re all equals, and if someone wants to take advantage of a peaceful nice guy like me for their benefit, I might just have a BF(bitch fit).
While I stayed strong throughout this year, I have learned alot in different areas. I can even say I improved in alot of areas. I’m more analytical on everything, I walk with better self confidence, I am in great physical shape compared to the beginning of college, and I’m blessed with these experiences just being in college. This year, I feel more responsible for my own destiny than I have ever. This is that one last leap into adulthood and as I look around, it’s everyone’s immaturity that makes me or others look older. Good luck to us all in 2005, I’ll leave you with some last words of wisdom.
If at the end of 2005, you look back at all ups and downs, if you can say that you ultimately did it for yourself, no matter what anybody told you, then it was worth it.
Don’t fall into a stereotype. Make a friend that nobody likes but you. Listen to country music. Get rid of your trucker hat. Don’t discriminate somebody because you feel superior to them. Learn a new hobby. Read often and when noone is watching. Dance like it’s your job. Wear what you like, even if I’m shouting down your throat. Run an extra mile. Stop being jealous of others. Do the best with what you have. Try to impress people without talking. Try not to use the word ‘hate’ when talking about people. Be nice to yourself and be nice to all.
Rock on.
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Yeah, it was a good time. Sorry I was such a camera whore. Too bad you weren’t there to photograph my knee. It was definitely the dumbest injury of the night.
As for your words of wisdom I say, “right on.” You’ve grown and matured a lot since I first met you way back when (kicking Jeremy in the nuts), and I think it shows just how much of an adult you’ve really become.
Well, no matter how much you mature, keep a bit of that dancing upside down in a chair, singing Whitney Houston. Somehow, it keeps us all sane.
If you can wake up in the morning, through all the crap that we’ve all certainly been through, thinking we’d never get through it - and be ready and willing to face the next day, year, hour, with a sense of confidence and humility, then I say maturity’s worth it. It’s the part that makes us cynical that I don’t particularly enjoy. But that, is life.
Rock on, Sarin. Keep doing what you’re doing, ’cause it’s a hell of a lot more insightful than the droves of us out there. In the general sense, of course.
Rock on guys. Rock on.