A Look Back at 2010

Yeah, you read that right. Like the characters in Lost, I'm living in a parallel universe. Well, maybe it's not exactly like the characters in Lost. Maybe it's more like Back to the Future. Since I don't watch Lost, I really don't know. My friend Nelly tried to catch me up on the show and all of its mysteries and meanderings the other day while we watched our kids sledding in her snowy backyard, so I know that there's several versions of the story playing out at the same time--I think. Still don't get it, probably will never get it, but hey--A for effort, Nelly!

So why the fast forward to 2011? Somehow I already know that 2010 was/is/will be my best year ever. It's my breakthrough year, the year I finally let it all be what it's supposed to be and become what I'm supposed to become. Even Rob Brezsny agrees with me. He calls it a "breakout year," rather than a "breakthrough year," but whatevs.

"I’m going to go out on a limb here and predict that 2010 will be your breakout year...It will be the year you do what you’ve been saying you’re going to do for many moons...the year you finally get your dreams in gear. Not the tentative, mediocre dreams of the wounded beast in you...The dreams you’re going to be getting in to gear are the exalted and exciting dreams of your higher self. 2010 will be the year you increase your output, and raise the stakes, and amplify your desires, expand your self-image."

(From Rob's long-range forecast, which you can still get, but not for long. I highly recommend you fork over $18 to get your three-part forecast for 2010. So fun. And no, he doesn't pay me to say that. He doesn't even know me. I'm just a fan.)

I've felt this for a few months, this impending liberation from all that I have allowed to slow me down, hold me back and generally delay my happiness. It's been a confounding couple of decades, I have to say. Who knew this shit would take so long?