Best Wishes

Is there anything left to wish for? Is there any point in wishing for something if it's never going to come true? Why do we even wish? Is it to keep our spirits up?
Blowing out the candles on a cake on your birthday and then making a wish? A shooting star makes a wish, just like blowing away the fluff from a dead dandelion (which, by the way, isn't as easy as it sounds).

And then it's Christmas... best wishes to everyone again (yes, even those people we hate and detest). It doesn't matter; at Christmas, we're suddenly more tolerant of what we wish for, although not to whom we invite into our homes. And then... there's New Year's Eve. We wish for something again. Nothing but good, of course, because we've all become super sociable and don't want to let our guard down, right? Happy New Year, may everything go well, we say, but only to the people we know, and sometimes, yes, very occasionally, we think afterwards: I really hate that face of yours, I'd love to punch you. Oh well, you're not the only one who thinks that, and as long as you haven't had a big drink, you won't blurt it out or clench your fist and land it on the person in question's face.
Anyone aggressive, after all, fights in the army or joins the hooligans or a bunch of other troublemakers, at least when they're not on vacation. Or enjoying the skate fun. After all, skating is much more important than dealing with annoying people who are always there, unlike ice fun. The first skating competitions on natural ice have already been held today, and everyone has been freezing in bed these past few nights, but with skating fever, that doesn't matter one bit.

Is there anything left to wish for? Yes: toi, toi, toi, and may the best person win. A plate of real pea soup with smoked sausage would be wonderful, but delicious food, plain Dutch winter fare, is a thing of the past, just like the rising global temperature. December was the coldest winter since 2000, so that speaks volumes.

A creative end of the year, it's the last year fireworks are allowed in the Netherlands, so we stocked up on more. You have to have something to spice up your life.

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