New Year's Day: A Fresh Chapter Begins

New Year’s Day doesn’t feel like any other day in the year; it has a touch of the extraordinary about it. With the first light of a new year on the horizon, January is the month that seems to be alive with possibilities and…it’s winter. It’s not just any day, but a day of fresh starts, a world-wide do-over that humanity pulls off.

New Year’s Day celebration can be traced back thousands of years with each civilization contributing its own colored hue to the unchanging course of evolution. Everyone and every culture across the world starting from the ancient Babalonians who in their daily life made a pledge to their gods at the start of the year, and the Chinese who explode fire crackers to banish all the evils joining in celebration of the first day of the year.

However, as the years passed in the New Year’s day has turned into a time when one does some deep thinking about the future one wants to create. It is that particular time when we look back in as a year and review both our victories and setbacks. Even though making New Year resolutions is looked down by so many people as a joke, the action predicts our desire to change and grow. We make these promises to ourselves whether it is to exercise more, learn something or spend more time with our loved ones and these hopes reflect our ability to always look forward to the best to happen in future.

The day itself tends to exist in an odd state of post-illumination drunkenness. Most wake up late as they celebrate the arrival of the new year with pomp and coloration the previous night. Urban landscapes are otherwise distinct; cars are off the road, shops are shuttered, and perhaps time feels different. As if the world is rested and is ready to move and operate in a certain way and at certain speed during the next one/half of the year.

Folklore has it that traditions are very important in the celebrations of the New Year’s Day. Obviously, black-eyed peas and collard greens are especially popular in the American South, where they are called ‘good luck’ and ‘prosperity.’ Soba noodles is part of family dinners; Japanese families also cut their soba noodles into long pieces to ensure they are long-lived._tarantine end the year eating twelve grapes, each representing the months of the coming year. These traditions, inherited, contribute to human timeless memories thus linking up people to the previous generations.

In addition to the rituals and customs, New Year’s Day makes up a significant psychological stop on the calendar. A temporal marker that not only allows you to let go of existing habits, offenses, and failures but practically encourages it. Perhaps surprisingly, it isn’t only the mechanistic, rational outlook on organization, and efficiency that the symbolic clean slate brings: it also provides the employee with a psychological uplift which should not be underrated. There is something very deep in the human soul which likes the idea that one can become better, one can try to start anew.

time’s end and time’s beginning are brought to our attention with special significance on the first day of the year. Living in a world where even our watches monitor our every activity, New Year’s is a much more archaic way of letting ourselves know that time has passed. It unites us with our forefathers who have seen the same sun rise over so many first’s of so many a newborn days, and plan as we do, and hope as we do.

What works best for me is that during the day there is this unobtrusive transition from contemplation to doing. People set their goals, people open calendars and the initial actions toward the creation of new goals are initiated. It is a time of particular expectation and even a seasoned skeptic might wonder about what could possibly change in the calendar year.

To this end, the world’s most beloved public holiday – New Year Day is perhaps the most beautiful; not because it belongs to anyone but everybody. But this applies to all of us: no matter our situation, no matter what our lot, we’re all given the same clean slate – the same chance to put words on a page – the same shot at a new paragraph in our existence. As people, we cannot choose the manner in which the world moves but we can decide what we do with the time available to us.

As evening crosses the horizon from the first day of the year there is a gradual shift from the dreams that morning paints to everyday business. Next year is like an unprinted volume in life’s library with its future blank and up for grabs in the writing. As much as though New Year’s Day is only one of the thirty one two three five holidays; though it only comes once in a year; still being a symbol of new beginning and hope, it is one of most valued festivities for humanity.(affiliate links in article author may recieve payment)