Dear Boys,
This December was particularly dreary for me, as I am not generally a festive person, so much so I confessed to your mum I was rather ‘Grinchy’ this year end. I guess the whole celebration and holidaying is not my kind of thing.
It wasn’t until your mum and I serendipitously walked into Orchard Cineplex one of our dating weekends in a December in 2011 and we decided to pick this movie to watch at random. Well, the movie is extremely and unusually star-studded, and moreover Robert De Niro is in it, it can’t be that bad.
It turned out to be good, damn good.
At least for me, I can make some significance as to why people put so much energy and effort into celebrating the new year. It was a sense of closure, renewal and moving on, and every time I hit the year end doldrums, I would think of that movie and the significance. The movie has multiple storyline and tensions running at the same time, which all converge at the stroke of the last embers of December 2010. It was a feel good moment that really bodes all’s well, ends well.
What January brings
Further maturing into that thought, I thoughtfully reflect on the meaning of January, and again, why does people make such a big fuss about a year’s end?
Societal, Economic, Financial, Business, Academic and Religion Reasons
There is in fact more than that, since between December and January, a lot of organizations closes their books, rest and prepare for the new year, in some places where there are 4 seasons, it is perhaps the turn of a new season. Winter’s over for some places, Spring arrives. For where we are, in perpetual summer, there is not really any reasons to celebrate the end of a cyclical cold spell.
Some companies closes their financial books, some starts their business at the turn of a new year, there is a sense of hope, moving on and a renewal of energy, resources that is exciting and exhilarating. School ends with a holiday and the new academic terms starts, there is a sense of progress and propulsion.
What January means
It’s just a date many people rally around to make a change, do something new, a new year resolution of sorts, and there is hope in doing so. We yearn to break away from our old limiting beliefs and start afresh, January brings hopes.
Your own January
So bearing that significance in mind, January is just, January. You can make your own January, any day, month, time of the year. You can start afresh anytime, and you don’t have to wait for the January to be January, before you make a change.
If things isn’t working out, think of the hope the month of January brings and use that vibe to make a change. don’t just sit there and waste 11 months knowing things isn’t working out and then change just because the clock went from 31 December to 1 Jan.