Auld Lang Syne

The question it asks is clear: 

Should those we knew and loved be 

forgotten and never thought of? 

Should old times past be forgotten? 

 No, says the song, the people we have known

 and loved should never be forgotten. 

We'll remember those times and those 

people, we'll toast them now and always, 

we'll keep them close. The good times we 

shared, all the memories, 

the good as well as the bad. 

They were all in our lives for a reason. 

 "We'll take a cup of kindness yet."

The phrase "old acquaintance" 

is important too.  It's not only your close 

friends and people you love, it's people you

 knew even casually, and you think of them.  

 Acquaintance includes, your heroes, 

my heroes—the Winston Churchills of life,

 the ones you admire.

 They're old acquaintances too. 

But the interesting, more serious message 

in the song is that the past is important. 

 We mustn't forget it, 

the old has something for us."

In memory of past days. Auld lang syne.

Here's a toast to the New Year ahead, 2012. 

May it be a good year for all of us!

Cheers! and Happy new Year!