A Happy New January to Everybody!

In the midst of preparing for my exams I have suddenly been hit by the complete meaninglessness of New Year. No – this is not about the cynicism that gets to most people including this blogger from time to time about New Year celebrations or the depressive tendencies it engenders in others. It has brought upon me that ‘a year’ has become an irrelevant unit of measurement of most lives. Almost every conversation in the last one third of every year is peppered by comments like the “year flew by” or “March seems so far away”. The point is that March is far away from the perspective of December and every twelve months seem to either experience a lot more, very little and/or does both in spurts. A year is too much time to account for activities, conversations, trips and non-events. And it seems sometimes that so much has taken place between that to plug it on the same calendar is constraining. 365 days seem to stretch on in the wake of the realization that by the time another year gets over we would have probably lived through what feels like multiple years.

So here is wishing everybody a very Happy January, a Happy Semester, a fun Spring Break! And for all those who hold onto the fantastic notion of year 2008 – A Happy 2008.