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Everyday is a New Year
… if you think about it this way
Fireworks. Drinks. Laughter.
The clock counts down. Shouts of jubilation fill the air. A New Year is born. New thoughts, new plans, new resolutions, but guess what?
It is not the Chinese New Year yet. You’ll have to wait till the first week February for that. The Ethiopian New Year falls on September 11 every year (sorry that has passed.)
The Gregorian calendar, which most of North America, England and its former colonies adopt is one of over 20 documented calendars across the world. The Burmese and Thai New Year, the Cambodian New Year, the Ethiopian New Years are a few of the others; and that is not counting undocumented cultures that interact with the cycle of time differently.
If a calendar of New Years were drawn acknowledging every New year in every culture that has existed on our planet, I suspect that every month on the Gregorian calendar would feature a few New Year day celebrations depending on which cultural reference point you choose.
Every year, this seemingly marked New Year milestone is a point of reference for many things. Corporates restart financial year calendars; new billing cycles commence; individuals make resolutions, put the past year behind them, and look forward to the new year. In my home country of…
