New Year Coming

Well, another year is fast approaching and I wonder how much I have learned in the passing of 365 days. I won't say it was an either an easy year or the worst, but looking back a lot has happened and yet everything is pretty much the same. Trying to decide if the coming of '08 is a landmark or a curse is interesting, another year older, wiser (?), deeper in debt (as the country western song goes (?): I am not to sure yet. Has the year changed the world? Most years do, but I don't think the calendar has made that clear yet. Where do you stand? Where do we stand?