In The Age of Anxiety, W.H. Auden observed that we human beings
never become something without pretending to be it first. The corollary
is more prosaic but, regrettably, at least as true: We humans never become most of the things we pretend we will someday be. Nevertheless,
last Monday, you and I and several billion other incorrigible optimists
raised our glasses and toasted all the ways we will be different in
2013.
-NYmag
