Flipping over to 2009
A brief look in to how the new year is welcomed in different cultures; spanning from wearing bright colour underwears in Brazil to jumping of chairs in Denmark... here is a link to some of the most interesting ways to enter a new year. If you were to start a new tradition of a way to enter the new year what would it be?
http://www.travelandleisure.com/slideshows/worlds-strangest-new-year-traditions
All over the world the new year marks new beginnings, putting behind the misfortunes, conflicts and worries and starting fresh, but does flipping a page in the calendar, seeing the last digit increase by one on your time clock really makes that much difference? You might 'forget' certain worries and conflicts for a short times or make resolutions to improve on your relations and avoid other issues but in the end you still carry over the same baggage from the past year. There is no magic wall that you can climb over and leave your worries behind and enter into a more pleasant world. 2008 will go down in history for many reasons ranging from economic woes to 'change' in american politics, the optimists might like to believe that worst if over but the reality will be that 2009 will not be much different, people will still die of hunger and lack of medication and care, schools will still be burned and children deprived of education, powerful politicians will still refuse to step down, nuclear enrichment will proceeded and killing of innocents in the name of religion and for the sake of land will be prevalent....
4 comments:
from what i understand, in new york, its customary to wear something red and new, such that the new year is good ..
a bit of a depressing view for 09 no? what about the good things, the new schools that will be built, the people that will be fed, cured etc.
that can only happen if people are motivated to do something and improve, which is why the yearly calendar is such a beautiful thing. without a ending point, there can be no starting point; tomorrow marks the starting point of a new year, that which happened in the past should be looked at as something to learn from and in the next year to improve.
we start afresh, and hopefully do better than last time around, and if we all tried to improve, the world would be a lot better place
thats why gladly the world is not full of pessimists...
the ending point is an illusionary ending point, one should not be constrained to 364 days to looks back on the 365th day and think about attributes to improve on.
well you would hope that at the end of every day, you would spend 10 mins to determine the good and bad things you did and do some introspection ... but lets face it thats a dream ... i think most people wont muster more than once a year
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