Happy New Year?...

Its belated, I know. However, there is a reason behind this; I wanted to give the New Year a chance before I started this post which, to be honest, is likely to be less than positive.
Don't get me wrong I enjoy the celebration and anticipation about the arrival of the New Year, I am just not convinced about the fresh start franchise that seems to go with it. Clearly everything that you wish you had said, hadn't said, had done and hadn't done is not going to disappear on the 1st of January. It is always going to be there. Sorry to be so blunt.
I understand why people may be drawn into the idea. The idea that anything is possible, that this year could be the year that everything could change for the better (or the worse) and finally the world may just go right for you. Of course this is possible but I am almost 100% certain that it isn't due to the fact that we are now writing a different date at the top of work or using a different calender. It is much more likely to just be coincedence and the consequence of something that had happened peviously.
Yes, maybe you have decided that this year you are going to loose weight or put more effort into your work. Yes, maybe you have always wanted to do this and the New Year seems like a good place to start, of course it does. I am the same, I hate trying something new in the middle of the week. Monday seems like the most logical place to start. Why? Because it is the start of a New week and I like to start a New week with something new. New Years is just the same. There is something psychological that tells us that because it is dubbed as being the New year it will replace the old Year and all that was in it and that we should replace our 'old' selves as well. Of course, no-one is perfect and therefore maybe changes could be made but why on New Years? and why replace our 'old' selves when simple changes and new horizons may be all that we need? After all without our original selves how can we know who we are, where we have come from and where we are going?