Let me start 2003 by posting a quote from Proust about living life:

"I think that life would suddenly seem wonderful to us if we were threatened to die... Just think of how many projects, travels, love affairs, studies, it -- our life -- hides from us, made invisible by our laziness which, certain of a future, delays them incessantly.

But let all this threaten to become impossible for ever, how beautiful it would become again! Ah! if only the cataclysm doesn't happen this time, we won't miss visiting the new galleries of the Louvre, throwing ourselves at the feet of Miss X, making a trip to India.

The cataclysm doesn't happen, we don't do any of it, because we find ourselves back in the heart of normal life, where negligence deadens desire. And yet we shouldn't have needed the cataclysm to love life today. It would have been enough to think that we are humans, and that death may come this evening."

-- Proust, quoted in How Proust Can Change Your Life


...Very true. This would be my mantra for this year, living life as how it should be.

Happy new year, everyone!