Goodbye rooster, hello dog: let’s dream for more bark than bite in 2018
Indulge in some crystal-ball gazing, then be hit with the reality
In real life, most chickens live 42 days before being “processed”. I wish our year of the rooster 2017 could have been cut so short.
As we crash through into 2018 and the year of the dog, we can only hope for the better. But I suspect the year I wish for will not match the year that we get.
Let’s play a 2018 fortune telling game anyway, distinguishing what I wish will happen from what in reality is likely to happen. Here are eight predictions for 2018:
● Trump: We have to start with US President Donald Trump. Born in June 1946, he is the fourth president to be born in the Year of the Dog (Benjamin Franklin, Bill Clinton and George Bush) but is the only dog to be President during a Dog Year. Ironically, he is one of the few US presidents not to have a dog in residence. Dog people are supposed to be loyal, protecting, fair, intelligent, hard-working and sincere. Trump?
Wishful thinking: some peace from eccentric and scatological tweets; he ends up impeached; he finds himself facing multiple law suits for sexual abuse under the smouldering #metoo campaign; he and family do not get invited to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding; he suffers humiliating losses in November’s Midterm elections. So much for wishful thinking.