A New Year

The approach of another day,counted down with excitement as parties began to accelerate.  I sat on the outside, watching the chaos of drunkenness crescendo into a stupor.   They slurred Auld Lang Syne, and mumbled nonsense words as fillers. I stood there feeling superior, though knowingly jealous of their freedom to let go.   I stood there enraged of yet another year I spent alone.

There's always the invites to strange new places, with strange new people, and it always seems to end the same.  It's as if Loneliness settles into the bones, and it becomes a part of your marrow.  I rather be outside observing life, than actually being apart of it.  

It was a long walk home.  I was in my own drunken stupor, and for some reason determine to walk six miles in the snow.  It was theoretical snow... because in my mind - the difficulty I was having walking would be equivalent to walking into soft snow knee high.  It seems sad and pathetic thinking about that part, but I know how the story ends.  Serendipity was soon to strike, and strike she sure did!

I was hit by a car.  Not just any car, but a Mini Cooper.  In fact, clowns started pouring out of the car by the bus load. Well okay, I was hallucinating, or dreaming that part as I was unconscious... but a Mini Cooper took me out.  I don't recall the ambulance ride, nor how long I have been in the hospital.  It could have been a few hours, or perhaps a few months... I just know I was lucky to be alive.

(Happy New Year - The above is 100% fiction - a little snippet I just wrote on the fly.  Some day I may continue it, or not... :)