THERE IS NO MAGIC ON NEW YEAR'S EVE
or How To Wake Up To The Idea That Any Day Can Be New Year's Eve
There is no magic in New Year’s Eve.
You decide that this is the year we’ll do this or that (or stop doing this or that), but there is no magic that will assist you.
It’s all you, baby.
And that’s kinda great.
Hear me out.
Us humans inject a lot of meaning into calendars.
Calendars are good.
Without calendars you’d have no idea if today is your birthday or the day you’re supposed to get the oil changed in your car.
Without calendars every day would be a blissful blur until they shut off your internet because you and the internet company ran out of money, you had no clean clothes because there’d be no Laundry Day, and you suddenly found yourself eating tacos on a Wednesday.
Nightmare.
No, we need calendars… and for more than just avoiding the non-alliterative horror of “Taco Wednesday”.
Calendars draw parameters around this rickety, hastily assembled, nausea-inducing county fair Scrambler called Life.
And sure, Calendars are based on seasonal changes and such… but it’s us who give them their meaning and value.
The planet spins and the seasons change regardless of what we do.
It’s entirely us who decide that a specific point in that process has meaning.
So, ring out your resolutions, resolve your resolves, and wish your wishes for the New Year.
You can do that any day of the year.
So go easy on yourself.
You’re not locked in to anything for a year.
Any day can be your New Year’s Eve.
There is no magic in New Year’s Eve.
It is not really the end of anything, or the start of something…
Unless we decide it is.
It’s all you, baby.
And that’s kinda great.
Happy New Year.
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Nailed it again. You really do put life into perspective. It’s amazing how much importance we assign to knowing what day of the week it is let alone the turning of a New Year. For me this has been an Anno horribilis beginning with a one month to the Australian outback ( the good part of the year) and ending with six months of unendurable pain followed by hip replacement Dec 19. I am personally on the mend and expect 2024 to deliver some good stuff so welcome the end of 2023. Have a great new year- not the day but the year - and keep on writing the good stuff you do.
New Year’s Day is the most boring day of the year. Everything is closed & nothing on tv except football (I don’t have streaming service). I think I’ll read a book 😉