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I saw the new year in last night with family, and with friends. And I ended up watching Glastonbury highlights at three in the morning, too tired to go to bed.

But now that I’ve slept, and now that things have settled in a little bit, I find it quite strange to sit back and think that today is the first day of a new decade. I remember seeing in the new year in 2000, but back then there were other things taking the headlines: there was the threat of the millennium bug, an air of paranoia around the potential collapse of computers and electronics. I was young, in the 90’s, a kid, and I didn’t look back on it, or think about it much – the year 2000 was just another new year.

But this, this is strange. A lot has happened in the 00’s. I’ve gone through secondary school, sixth form, and university. I finished my education, and strode out into the big wide world. It was a period in time where I realised what I wanted to do, and set about making it happen.

Here, at the outset of 2010, at the beginning of a new decade, I’m in position to live my dream. I’m in a position to write, and to tell stories, whether it’s fiction, or journalism, or any other form of writing – I just need to start getting down to it.

The naughties was a wonderful decade, a really important decade for me, personally. It has established this new decade as one for the taking, and I’m looking forward to taking it and making the most of it, if that makes sense.

I hope everyone had a terrific time celebrating, wherever you might be, whatever you might have been doing. I did, and although I’m still feeling particularly tired, I’m feeling very satisfied and happy.