It's not new years, it's this year.

Why is it a new year when it’s really this year? New is simply relative to the beholder’s value of time. Realistically, logically, and slightly impractically speaking, a new year only exists on the single, immeasurably, and infinitely minuscule point that the year begins, the point where 2012 is 2012, not 2012.0001 or any number that is greater than 2012 at all.
Now I guess to get to the main point, the new year is this year, and New Years Day is just two days ago, and yesterday it was yesterday, and the day before the day before yesterday it was tomorrow. What I am trying to imply is that the idea of new years is simply based on the psychological fact that humans set a pattern to everything, hence the reason we find ways to organize the time into set intervals using the Gregorian calendar’s basis of the Earth’s orbit as a unit of the year, the Earth’s rotation as a unit of the day, and so forth.
New Years Day should not get so much celebration considering it provides no actual benefit for mankind, seeing as it is just another day.
New Years Day, in MANY cases, results in resolutions that are never resolved, hopes that become hopeless, anticipation for stagnation, and desired change that just ends up the same as yesterday.
This is why a large sum of New Years Day optimists end up having very similar New Years resolutions for consecutive years in a row. One may state that they want to become vegan, but then end up eating meat with the mentality of, “Oh! Gosh darnit, it’s only February, I might as well wait till next year and finish this delicious piece of meat.” In other instances, losing weight, traveling to said destinations, and even working out to get that killer body are all examples of these resolutions which end up as the resolution for next year, with absolutely no progress to show. We give up too fast after one thing goes wrong. It’s human nature to do this however, only because the new years ideology allows room for comfort, because, of course, next year really is going to change my mentality on life and all. MY ASS. New Years Day is surely the glutton of procrastination.
Now, as for hope, it surely provides hope. Unnecessary hope. New Years Day is the beginning of a repeat on the revolution-interval based system of time. It is new in of time. As is this second that you are reading this. In actuality, the hope and excitement and happiness that builds up for the new year is only the result of commercially savvy people and the longing of the “holiday” effect from Christmas to stay as long as humanly possible, or in this case, till the end of the year. It is simply a new day, and nothing will change. Your motives, your friends’ motives, and the motives of the world will not change for anything, so you are as hopeful as the Mexican president is about eradicating the drug cartels. Which is very hopeful. With no actual desired result.
So after reading this, consider what you have done in the past year. The past 2 days of this year. Has it differed from last year? Have you realized that the world is not a better place and all that celebration for the new years did not actually yield any actual reason?
For those of you that stick to your resolutions, power to you.
But for the rest of the majority, reflect upon yourself. Even if you have something to look forward to next year, why not get excited the month of?
We should have plan to start today rather than wait for this one day. We will never succeed in completion if we hope for the tomorrow for no particular reason.
Start being vegan now, because the new year surely isn’t going to change the way you procrastinate.
Be hopeful for something that you should actually be hopeful for. In the middle of January. Don’t have the equivalent of senioritis and start getting excited for summer break over winter break.
As I said, power to the people, for those of you that go all out in success with this New Years Day deal.
To me, New Years Day is just another day gilded with celebration. In this case, the actual dictionary definition of ‘gilded’ really defines this day.
It’s not pessimism that I exude, it’s realism.
Start now, and you will get so much accomplished.
We should be more focused on the now, and not the tomorrow. That is the essence of how we should be.

 

New Years resolutions are merely a platitude that many make up while drunk or celebrating the 'new year'. Science has proven that the best way to achieve a goal is to write it down and inform others of your goal also so they are able to help you. With new years resolutions you certainly inform others of your goal, but if they recall the goal, or if you recall it also is unlikely and procrastination will set in.

 

You, my friend, are 100% right