Dear 2010
You are the year when dreams will ring true. You will make hearts sing, and you will turn frustration into carefree laughter. You will allow some students to graduate from elementary, middle, high, undergraduate, graduate, law, medical, dental, vocational, and military school. You will allow some mothers to receive the gift of life, and you will allow couples in love to exchange vows. You will give a chance for change in Congress and America’s political system. You will grant gold medals to the world’s finest Olympians, and you will uncover the world’s greatest soccer team. You will admit some deserving believers into Heaven, and you will end the suffering for some terminally ill. You will admit lucky bands into the limelight, and you will give aspiring artists the chance for stardom. You will employ teenagers into their first job, and you will teach responsibility to children. You will spread the gift of knowledge through the world’s wisest, and you will discover diamonds in the rough. You will make veterans into heroes, and you will save countries from obliteration.
You are also the year when nightmares will become reality. You will make souls scream, and you will turn ignorance into hell. You will turn inadequate students toward the streets. You will exterminate life before it begins, and you will rip couples apart. You may pass reforms that could destroy America for generations to come, and you will double the country’s deficit. You will force some athletes to fail, and you will crush dreams of a championship. You will demote shattered souls to hell, and you will make innocents suffer. You will destroy the dreams of aspiring children, and you will show them that happily ever doesn’t come true. You will hand unlucky cards to some and show them that a cardboard box will be the best they ever have. You will slaughter young men fighting for their country, and you may wipe countries off the face of the earth via nuclear weapons.
2010, what fate will you bring me? Will you bring me one step closer to my dreams, or will you bring me one step back? Will you give me a happily ever after, or will you force me to curse Disney? Will you bring happiness to my family, or will you force frustration like your predecessors did? Will you grant my loved ones good health, or will you make them fight for their lives?
I guess your answers will come sometime in the next 365 days…
