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and the season to greet and be greeted. Well not for everybody. Scrooge McGrumpy isn’t terribly jubilant.

Listen pal, just because the earth completed one revolution around the sun doesn’t magically change anything in your life. Some of us will do well, most will have their share of ups and downs, and some will screw themselves. I simply don’t see any point in sending people new year wishes, ok? Your new year card won’t do squat to help or hurt.

I don’t go out of my way wishing people, but I do reciprocate with a “wishing you the very best as well.”

Don Boudreax is more cheery after having bought some flowers. He then traces the efforts of countless strangers who co-operated to get his family the bouquet of fresh flowers from far away Ecuador to his home in a freezing New England winter.

Did even the kings, czars, and pharaohs of old enjoy the coordinated services of so very many productive people? No. But each one of us in the free world of 2005 does so daily.