New Year's Cogitation

January one two thousand and thirteen.

Today I contemplated for the first time what this date really means to me. I mean, it is the first day of the Calendar. I get that. The start of a “new year.” But, according to which calendar? If we think about it some more, a calendar is just a system of organizing days for various reasons. It isn’t that the world starts over every 365 days. It continues. Time moves on. January 1^st is one day further into the future than December 31^st. Also, what if several centuries ago, a certain number of days weren’t dropped off the calendar we now use? Would new year’s actually be next week in time?

For me, a “new year” won’t be a new year because it represents the first of 365 days on an invented calendar. It won’t be a celebration of a new Calendar Year. But it will maintain a very important aspect of my life.

Several days when things just don’t go the way I’d prefer, the day can become a series of negativity and mood kills. Days like those, I often simply, go to sleep. For many times, the next day offers me a fresh perspective. A chance to refresh. A chance to start over. A chance for a new approach. A chance to be the person I wanted to be yesterday.

So today, January 1 2013, I will start over. I will be the person I wanted to be in 2012. Today I have been given another chance. Today I will choose to reset internally. Today I will choose to make this day, January 1 2013, the day I will awake again, on the dawn of a new “year.”

Or more specifically, on the dawn of a new “me.”

Happy “New Years” Day.

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