I both have given up on listening to others’ predictions, with any seriousness, for an upcoming year, as well as stopped making such prognostications myself.  If I could foresee the future with any accuracy, I would not be writing here for my audience of perhaps a half a dozen (I’m being charitable to myself); I would be placing wagers on sports games with bookies or playing the stock market, quietly.  You’d never hear from me again and early retirement would be my lot.

Alas, I am not a Nostradamus. Thus, I will stick to what I would like to happen; what would be “nice”.

So, here is my “nice wish-list” for 2012:

• It would be nice if most people who are looking for a job got one.  I say “most” and not “everyone” since, as heartless as it may sound, there are some who earned their unemployment.  If you doubt such, think about a not-so-positive visit to a government agency or experience with a “customer satisfaction” agent on the phone (although they are somehow employed).
• It would be nice if every day were sunny and 75 degrees, at least during the New Jersey winter.
• It would be nice if a majority, as opposed to a small minority, of mass transit elevators in the New York City area, or anywhere for that matter, worked.
• It would be nice if the remaining dictators of the world moved onto their next life; 2011 was not a good year for tyrants, thankfully.
• It would be nice if people on the roads showed courtesy towards each other (alright, I’m reaching for the moon but I also believe in the Second Coming).
• It would be nice if most people voted this year.
• It would be really nice if those people who voted knew about who they cast their ballots for.
• It would be nice if the next “price change,” no matter what it is on, lowers the price and doesn’t raise it.
• It would be nice if Occupy Wall Street declares their satisfaction with something….anything.
• While on the topic of Occupy Wall Street, it would be nice if instead of occupying physical places, they occupied more of the intellectual debate which is sure to heat up next Presidential election year. Right now, Spiro Agnew’s label “nattering nabobs of negativism” is what I think of when they are mentioned.
• It would be nice if the next mailing I receive from my church or any of the educational institutions I attended said that they have enough money and just wanted to inform me of the mission they are fulfilling, as opposed to being in a constant state of pan-handling.
• It would be nice if no one died (except the dictators mentioned above).  It’s both depressing to see the old-timers go and tragic to hear of young people passing. Yes, I realize there would be a logistics problem with this one so let’s just keep it to 2012 until we work out the bugs.
• It would be nice if some of those re-sealable food packages actually worked. It would be nicer if I, an admittedly uncoordinated person (my wife calls it “klutz”), would learn to use them.
• It would be nicest of all, perhaps, if all of the issues above were addressed so windbags like myself would have nothing to write about and thus never be heard from again.

A happy and healthy new year to you.

-I.M.Windee

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