Opinion : Auld Lang Syne, 2015...

Every year on this date, millions of people stay up late, waiting for a ball to drop, so they can sing a song with 235-year-old words, many of which they don't understand. That's just one of our society's silly New Year's Eve habits.

I thought it would be appropriate, as we begin 2016, to take a new, more modern look at Auld Lang Syne as we consider the year we leave behind and anticipate the future:

Should auld bad habits be forgot

Oh wouldn't that be fine?

If when we woke up

On the First

They'd all be left behind

If we could drop those

Extra pounds

Like Trump drops angry lines

And learn to replace our fossil fuels

With power from sunshine

Wouldn't it be great

My dear,

Wouldn't it be fine

If we would have only good habits

To last our whole life time?

If we would all live

Just as good

As most TV now is bad

Then we'd all be

As happy now

As Bush voters are sad

But there's one theory

That's proven true

Much more often

Than it's not

If we keep doing

What we've done

We'll stay stuck

With what we've got

If next year

Won't be the same

As was two, oh, one Five

Then you and I must make

Big change

And do more to make us thrive

Wouldn't it be great

My dear,

Wouldn't it be bright

If choosing all the perfect things

Was as easy to do as write?