18 days separate us December 31, 2020 and that means only one thing: hope for better days and much, much nostalgia for the New Year 2000.
It was the year when the world entered a new century, which would bring with it an unprecedented technological development in all directions, but who would have thought that two decades later the world would celebrate it in the midst of a global pandemic?
Anyway, the important thing is that we still keep hearing "All I Want for Christmas is You", and watch "Home Alone" but already on Youtube, Spotify or Netflix. And since we ourselves grew up in the age of the tape recorder, at this time of year there are some things that come back to us every time, but only in the mind.
Visits dated 1 January
How distant and impossible does that time seem to us today? The breakfast of the 1st found us dressed and decorated, ready to go to mother, aunt, aunt, etc., etc. Practically during the day we could eat 4 pieces of baklava during the day and stop only when we heard mom saying: "No no, do not give it because she does not like sweets".
Marathon of the most beautiful songs of the year on TV
Do you remember that at the end of the year, televisions broadcast the hit parade of the most beautiful songs? "MTV" continues to do so, but Albanian television abandoned this formula when they saw that people could create a personal parade hit on Youtube.
A good part of the festive atmosphere was created by the music with which you woke up on the morning of December 31, when the TV was buzzing while my grandmother was waking up at 5 to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner.
Two film boxes for the camera
Film cameras are a thing of the past forgotten and to be honest, there is nothing more relaxing than the fact that you can take as many photos as you want, you can review and delete the ones you like, and not you you have to wait until they are washed.
Admittedly, the road to the photo studio to finally get them was a super emotion.
Dhe pozat, ah pozat!
Dhe fakti që dikush flijohej për të bërë foton dhe nuk ishte asnjëherë në fotot familjare të fundvitit. Zakonisht babi, sepse një djallush i vogël i kishte mbushur mendjen që s’di të pozojë, kështu që më mirë të merret me shkrepjen.
Koncerti i fundvitit
Një event i mirëorganizuar me skaletë, skenar dhe numra koreografikë. Fëmijët e atëhershëm kanë qenë producentë të lindur, tjetër punë se rrethanat na çuan në call center.
Më shumë afrimitet dhe më shumë frymë familjeje: i mbani mend kushërijtë tuaj artistë, secili me një talent të veçantë?
Dhe meqë ra fjala: cili prej jush ishte Shakira?
E ngrëna sa për gjithë vitin
Kur mendoj lumturinë, mendoj një tavolinë të madhe të shtruar mbarë me ushqime plot vaj, djathë, kripë, sheqer. Epo, diçka e tillë ishte darka e fundvitit atëherë kur s’e dinim ç’janë kaloritë. E mbani mend kur zgjoheshim në mëngjes dhe mami na porosiste të mos hanim shumë gjatë ditës meqë kishim darkën e madhe më vonë?
Tani që jemi rritur e kulturuar dhe e dimë ç’janë karbohidratet dhe proteinat, kërkojmë falje 100 herë përpara se ta gllabërojmë copën e bakllavasë. Java e parë pas vitit të ri është një vetëndëshkim që ne na pëlqen ta quajmë “detoks”.
Mrekullia e dhuratave
Atëherë kur nuk e kuptonim se lumturia nuk është të marrësh, por të japësh, gëzimi i hapjes së një dhurate ishte kaq i brendshëm , i sinqertë, kaq shpirtëror.
Today we know that giving is more beautiful than receiving, we give only to those we have necessary, it comes to the boss or friend who has done you some honor, and so on.
Maybe they should have taught us to receive, to now really want to give.
Immeasurable happiness when the first fireworks were heard
This was the moment you had been waiting for all year. Whoever fell asleep, he begged everyone to wake him up just before 12 o'clock to go out the window and express a wish. As if the big sash that Chimi, the boss of the neighborhood, bought every year, had supernatural powers.
And now, God knows how much we wish we could ever have a "mute" button for those fireworks, so we could sleep comfortably.
