I was dreaming when I wrote this, forgive me if it goes astray...
The final Friday of the second decade of the 21st century is upon us. While I have not looked for one, it would not surprise me to learn that Hallmark crafted a card for just such this occasion. "Final Friday of the Decade" seems like a worthy addition to the pantheon of greeting card company-created, made-up "days" that now pockmark the calendar. I now believe that formerly stand-alone holidays such as Lincoln's Birthday and Washington's Birthday have been glued together to form one new holiday, President's Day, not to create a long weekend in mid-February but to open space for two new faux holidays for which greeting cards could be created.
All kidding aside, we are now 20% of the way through the 21st century. Does it not seem like just yesterday that the world was atwitter about Y2K and the havoc it would wreak? Now the world is merely atwitter about all of the nonsense that finds a forum on Twitter, a platform that not all of us use (such as Yours truly) but that some among us use maniacally, more than making up for non-Tweeters like me.
If you are a 20th century child whose life has now continued into a whole new century, do you recall what your hopes and dreams were for the 21st century way back when twenty years ago? Do you recall what it was that made you most afraid when you thought about what life "in the future" would entail? One score later, have things worked out as well as you had hoped, as badly as you had feared, or something else altogether?
No matter what your answer is to that question, Hallmark probably makes a card for it. If they do not, rest assured that they will by this time next decade. Or better yet, my friend Phil Ayoub and his great outfit, Bow Ties Greeting Cards, shall. If he is not your go-to guy for a greeting card, then damn it he should be.
-AK
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