Happy New Year

Time is a continuum. Only man chops it up into manageable pieces. Today marks the completion of another revolution of the earth around the sun. Doesn’t mean a thing to me. A day in the new year is the same as a day yesterday in the previous year. The seconds still tick by, the minutes slip through my fingers in the same fashion, the hours remain the same. The only perceptible difference is the changing of the seasons. They cycle just as the earth moves around the sun. Why did the person who designed the Gregorian calendar arbitrarily decide that a new year starts with the cessation of winter and the blossoming of spring? Many people think that with the end of a year and a beginning of a new one, it’s time to let bygones be bygones, obtain closure for all the misfortunes of the past, look forward to a better future. In fact, with time as a continuum, there is no end and no beginning. If one wanted closure, to bury the past, to make new resolutions, they can make it on any other day of the year. Man has too great a need to feel a sense of accomplishment. So much so that even by surviving a revolution of the earth around the sun is considered an achievement. But a more appropriate celebration would be one’s birthday. If everyone already celebrates their birthday then why do we still need to celebrate the new year? Perhaps when I lived to see the earth revolve around the sun a 100 times, it would be a better cause for celebration. “I’m still alive because diabetes, obesity, CVA, infections and other minor or major accidents and disasters have not managed to off me. What are the chances of that?” A true cause of celebration.

Man just wanted to make up another excuse for inebriated debauchery. The perpetual party seeker. Or was it because life in the past was so miserable that they had to come up with something to keep people from committing suicide from the onslaught of depressing winter gloom and endless days of toil in serfdom?

Anyway, to those of you out there who believe that a new year is a new beginning, all the best! Otherwise, you're welcomed to join the club. Cheers!