First day
Even though experience would tell us otherwise, there is always the hope that a new year will actually be new. That we will be able to change and become better or do more things. To do more sport, to become thinner, to study more, to make more money, to complete our objectives, to find love. Whatever. We want to become something else, we look back at our previous year and see that we fell short of the mark, so we look at the new year with a certain anticipation and renewed hope in our ability to change.
This feeling usually lasts only for a few days, of course. In the end a change of date from 31/01/19 to 01/01/20 is not really different from, say, 27/06/19 to 28/06/19. If we can change, we can do it any day. The New Year is just an excuse. But then again, do we really want to change? Perhaps we have achieved a certain level of comfort and running more, becoming thinner, or whatever it is, will not necessarily make us much happier, at least, not worth the effort it takes.
Or is it the wrong way to look at it? Sometimes, when I am in a more positive mood, I seem to think that indeed it is possible to improve, not from one day to the other, but during a long period of constant work. And in fact studies seem to prove it. So perhaps what we need is not so much to expect radical changes from one day to the other just because it is a New Year, but to work constantly on self-improvement without a necessary deadline, after all, the New Year may happen only once every year, but each day is a new day.
Happy New Year.
This feeling usually lasts only for a few days, of course. In the end a change of date from 31/01/19 to 01/01/20 is not really different from, say, 27/06/19 to 28/06/19. If we can change, we can do it any day. The New Year is just an excuse. But then again, do we really want to change? Perhaps we have achieved a certain level of comfort and running more, becoming thinner, or whatever it is, will not necessarily make us much happier, at least, not worth the effort it takes.
Or is it the wrong way to look at it? Sometimes, when I am in a more positive mood, I seem to think that indeed it is possible to improve, not from one day to the other, but during a long period of constant work. And in fact studies seem to prove it. So perhaps what we need is not so much to expect radical changes from one day to the other just because it is a New Year, but to work constantly on self-improvement without a necessary deadline, after all, the New Year may happen only once every year, but each day is a new day.
Happy New Year.
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