New Year, Really?

I don't know what you did on New Year's Eve, but I was sitting listening to my neighbour rattling my house with his bass-dominated tunes. Obviously, the guy and his Mrs have a right to party, but is it really necessary to blast my wall down like the trumpeters from Jericho? Thumping bass and the volume turned up so loud that it distorts the music. Mind you, whether you can call it music is another thing. But hey, Im biased, each to their own, I guess.

So I sat up listening to the UK Rock Channel, counting down the best rock party bangers. While Lisa, my wife, played a game on her phone. We were going to watch Hootenanny with Jules Holland, but we just didn't get around to it. We wished each other "Happy New Year", and my wife then went to bed. I stayed up a little longer then I retired to bed.

The number of people who say to me, "Have you made a New Year's resolution"? "I say no, what's the point, does anyone keep to them?" There was a time when I was younger than I am now, when I did make New Year's resolutions. However, more often than not, I did not keep them, which is why I don't make them now. Is it a lack of discipline that I never kept to them? It's also because I broke them at some point. I guess there must be some individuals who do keep to their resolutions, and I say, if you do, so well done.

So world-wise, what's changed from 2025 to 2026? Well, nothing, you wake up, and it's a day like any other. Unless Jesus Christ comes back or aliens land, life is the same. You go to work, college, uni, pay bills, get married, or celebrate your wedding anniversary, you spoil your kids, you go on holiday, you shop, and usually meet the same people in your life. In the world, there are human problems galore, so what's changed? You have the Middle East, Eastern Europe, the Far East, South America, and Africa all powder kegs right now. So, from 2025 to 2026, with personal scenarios or world scenarios, I repeat, "What's the difference between now and 2025?"

Dates, weeks, months, and years are just labels we've given to measure the days we inhabit. To make order in the human mind where there was no recorded order. Actually, there is an order governed by how many days it takes our planet to circle the sun. Other species in our world, as far as I am aware depending on their sentience, don't divide the year in the way we do. Look at my dog, intelligent as he is; he wakes up and does the same things in the day as he usually does. So in that way, is he not a little like us, just doing the same things over and over again day after day, week after week, month after month and yes, year after year. Yes, he is like us, but the difference is that when he wakes up, it's daytime, so he associates the light with getting up (I guess). And then when darkness comes, it's time to sleep. His structure of what he does is also driven by what my wife and I do. And that's true for humans, too. Dogs and we are both pack animals. So there will be similarities in all creatures on Earth.

I know a lot of this article has been rather negative and rather sombre. However, I will finish this off by simply saying whether you made resolutions or not, have a great new year.