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I’m getting on in years but New Year’s Eve is still probably my favourite holiday. Quite unbelievably the moment the champagne cork pops I’m filled with a kind of unthinking joy…..I KNOW this new year will be better than the last……But of course I don’t. So many of those happy new years have turned out to be disastrous yet I never learn. I still believe in the human possibility to change, to improve. Sometimes my kids tell me “get down from the tree”*…but I don’t want to, I want to believe that we don’t live in a jungle, on our guard all the time, I want to trust my fellow men, I want to hope. The old saying ” Live in hope, die in despair” is one of the cruellest phrases ever.
*scendere dal’albero means (more or less) wake up, don’t be so naive
English that grows 