Everyone doesn't love everybody else. And war, poverty, world hunger, and the very real possibility of the irreversible destruction of the earth's ecosystem are not going to somehow magically go away, simply because it's the start of a new millennium .
Today is really just another day.
This year is really just another year. True, lots of folks have come together to celebrate. But lots of other folks don't have enough to eat . Lots of other folks don't know where they're going to sleep tonight. Lots of folks live in countries overburdened with debt .