New Year
0New Year’s eve; what a good time to post a blessay, it only happens once a year, but maybe that sentence later contradicts what I’m about to discuss. What I’m going to try and discuss is my view of New Year’s eve, and indeed New Year’s day what they are usually associated with. Weather on not I’ll be able to construct a legible sentence that you can understand – or that even I can read back and know what I meant – is a different story all together; well, lets see how it goes.
I’ve realized that I’m being repetitive with my wording, so I’ll bundle New Year’s eve and New Year’s day into just New Year, unless I specify otherwise. When I think about New Year, I associate it with change, a time when people think it’s a good idea to change their ways and change who they are for the better. I think that if you needed to change that badly, you would want to do it as soon as you could, instead of putting it off until the end of the year. Change that people wish to take on, can either be large or small. The one which basically everyone pledges to do is to apply a New Year’s resolution to their lives. Usually this consists of quitting smoking, drinking less alcohol or taking more time for themselves and family, rarely does anyone actually keep this up for more than a month, maybe a minority do, and good for them. But my view is that why didn’t they do this sooner? If they had the ability to conquer and impede this habit, then why does it take a brand new year to force them to attempt it?
Other people may apply a major New Year’s resolution to their lives, for someone this may be wanting to move countries for a new start in life, leaving their family and friends behind in exchange for a sunnier climate and different food – I’ll come onto different good later in an analogy - they may want to run a marathon or they may want to defeat a deadly disease, (are all diseases deadly?), like AIDs or cancer – okay I’m running out of ideas, but you get the picture. Again, like someone who only wants to kick a small habit in comparison to the previous ambitions expressed in this paragraph, I don’t see why they don’t as soon as possible, specially in the marathon case; doesn’t every day of training count? I don’t know. I can’t speak for them.
Looking on the other side of the bookshelf – correct expression? Probably not, most bookshelves only have one side for books, unless your in a library, or are they just two book shelves standing back to back? Anyway, rambling over with, for now – I suppose I can see why people would want to wait until the New Year to try something different, to attempt something difficult to them, it’s the same reason why we take one week at a time, it gives you a chance to look back, reflect, see where you went wrong and correct that for the following week, usually. As I mentioned previously, people may associate a New Year as a new beginning for themselves, so I can see both sides of the arguments. It could be seen as a reason – a force, if you will – to push them to try harder or do different things. Perhaps New Year’s can be seen a parent, in the same way a parent encourages their child to do something different. I’m going to attempt an analogy, I’m going to use the example of trying new food. At a young age, children will be forever encouraged to attempt new food by their parents, without the parent pushing the child, why else would they even bother to try a new food, they wouldn’t do it because they wanted to. It’s only because someone is luring over and forced upon you that you decide to listen and try. You can apply that somewhat-too-long-and-flawed analogy to what New Year is to someone willing to do something different: it will be there to act as barrier to force them to do so.
At the time of writing this, my mind has suddenly gone blank on how to continue this blessay. I’ll get back to writing this later, for now I’ll post what I’ve done so far. Expect an update soon. Think of it as adding more water to pure orange squash: more writing will dilute the quality most likely.
Have a nice New Year’s eve what ever you’re doing to celebrate it, may it be drinking down the pub glugging back one pint after the other while watching the television trying to lip read and watching the seconds to by on the clock to ready on the way to 2009 then shouting and screaming in the street. Or maybe you’ve opted for a quiet evening in with the family, talking with one another and eating pretzels with BBC One in the background. Have a successful and flourishing New Year, humble reader.
Steven Knight – Administrator.
Published on December 31st 2008 / Filed under Blessays
