Regenesis
With 2008 officially behind us and 2009 officially begun, general consesus is that we have officially begun a “new” year.
… But just who exactly says its a new year?
The calendar? Your friends? The rest of the world? The fact that you will now date your notes with “January” instead of “December” and “2009″ instead of “2008″?
What makes yesterday any different from today?
New beginnings don’t just “happen”. You need to make them happen, and no amount of cheering, glitter, alcohol, counting backwards from ten, change of dates, new resolutions, renewing of the calendar year or lucky kisses with the ones you love at midnight will change that.
What defines a new year, then? Perhaps not the renewing of the calendar, but a renewing of the mind.
Your new year starts exactly when you decide you are ready to start a new year. This may have been today. It may be a month from now. It may even be six months from now, but at some point in time, you will be sparked with the desire to “start fresh” in something, and that will be when your new year starts. Don’t fool yourself into believing your internal calendar resets any sooner or later than the precise moment it wants to reset. You have to want change. Do you?
“Change is the essence of life. Be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.” — Mahatma Ghandi
Here’s to a happy, healthy, prosperous, new year filled with fabulous, outrageous, over-the-top fun, excitement, growth and adventure—whenever that “new year” may start for you. No matter where you are in life, tomorrow can be the first day of the rest of your life. Now go start some fires!
Although it doesn’t cange anything big, it’s pretty handy to have a calendar, to know dates. So I say this new calendrial year has begun, though my ‘new’ academic year started in September and so on and so forth. I guess you’re right about the changes, and new year comes in waves too [from east to west, but also in terms of Asian calendars and their other New Year, or the Celtic calendar with their Halloweeny New Year] so it’s all pretty relative!
January 2nd, 2009 at 10:40 amI do wish you a happy new year and hope to read a lot from you in the future, I like it here already ^_^
Honestly, I rarely ever feel like the new year is a new beginning. It’s just more of the same; I rarely make resolutions, and when I do, I don’t keep them. So, to me, the new year is basically pointless.
January 2nd, 2009 at 3:56 pmIt’s funny you blogged about the meaning of the New Year. At Rosh Hashanah (which is the Jewish New Year and falls in September or October, depending on the Jewish calendar) we talk about forgiving people (through wetting bread) and starting anew (through apples and honey). That’s when I tend think about what I should do about myself, the changes I want to make, etc. Then come January 1st, and that’s when I see which considerations I made will be applied for the year ;-) (Maybe I am cheating myself a bit?)
*toasting* Here’s wishing you a year of happiness and prosperity!
January 2nd, 2009 at 7:23 pmI couldnt agree more. ^_^
But i love new years even though some people don’t take advantage of it, having that feeling of a clean slate and some sense of do over makes you want to be better or fix things. Though the difference is if people are strong enough to keep those resolutions or just keep empty ones.
Happy new years Channel.
January 2nd, 2009 at 7:42 pmand again thanks for the card loved it ^_^
Oops i misspelled your name by accident.
January 2nd, 2009 at 7:43 pmeeps ^ Chanel hehe.
I agree with you. Between what a lot of people in the world call December 31 and January 1 don’t happen nothing different from what happen between any other two days of the calendar. But it’s a simbol, an image, and we humans need simbols and strong images to act.
January 6th, 2009 at 3:15 pmToo true! I began my “new year” in October 08!
January 11th, 2009 at 1:46 ama new year huh…? a fresh start….. maybe ill start my real new year soon or maybe not, i barely notice the year has already pass by me, maybe because i am working so hard i want to get successful early. Maybe if i start mine it’ll make a huge swing to my life yeah that’ll happen maybe…
January 12th, 2009 at 9:36 am