I like to consider myself a rational person. I don’t go around confusing random events for omens. I am not one to defend beliefs that have no scientific backing as factual. I am not overly freaking out over someone who has galvanized the nationalist and white supremacist tendencies of the US to become POTUS.
However, this is becoming really difficult. The number of people leaving us as the year comes to an end is difficult to ignore, and omens or not it is difficult not to ascribe meaning to what should rationally be considered meaningless.
Prince, Ron Glass, Carrie Fisher, and now Debbie Reynolds. All I can hope for is a meaningless change of the calendar that much of the western world has agreed to as meaningful will bring a more hopeful future.
So, for whatever it means, happy New Year, it can’t come fast enough.