Happy New Year
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Photo: Greg |
A friend has a sign on her door that reads: "I am so busy, I'm too busy to tell you how busy I am". Another from the workplace goes: "It's not the hours you put in, it's what you put in the hours".
At this time of the year especially, most find themselves with a fascinating fixation on time. Yet since all have twenty-four hours in a day to play with, this should be rather redundant, shouldn't it? However, people living in homes for the aged often see the long days of their lives rotating around food and sleep. Others on the treadmill of professional lives experience time differently as do children, students or lovers.
In many parts of the world, the widely used Gregorian calendar dictates that we now start anew with the first of the first of a new year. The fact that the months of the year possess three different amounts of days show perhaps some proof of the immense subjectivity of time. Other eastern countries see the New Year celebrations occurring on January fourteen or the first of the Julian calendar. China sees in their New Year later still.
Whether having watched the fireworks in Sydney or Berlin, listened to the chimes of Big Ben in London, counted down on Times Square in New York or enjoyed your own special celebrations: Happy New Year.
May 2011 bring good health, success, joy, love and contentment to all.